The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites

These days If you want to “go large” visually and have the most amazing looking website, delivering technical interaction and a super rich experience across a the majority of web browsers, Flash is the only way to go. Right? NOPE.

Nowadays the widespread adoption and advancements of new browsers and JavaScript libraries, using Flash makes little sense.

In the current day of technology and accessing the Internet through devices such as netbooks, mobile phones and TV’s, the benefits of Web standards outweigh those of Flash, especially when pushing out content to a broad audience on various devices.

Flash is a proprietary product that sits on top of the browser to extend functionality. While Flash may have provided missing functionality for some time, it brings little value to modern browsers. As more and more designers and developers realise the benefits of Web standards and start using some of the features of HTML5 and CSS3, we’ll see fewer Flash-driven websites.

As the iPad and iPhone both do not support Flash the debate has reached beyond the development community to include Adobe and Apple themselves. With Apple’s anti-Flash stance, it has become too hard to argue for a completely Flash-based website when it would leave out a potentially large audience.

If your website is made in Flash then chances are (if you don’t have a mobile version of your website) visitors to your website will only see blank space! Something to think about.