14 DAY TRIAL // Adobe's Flash Player is something people are divided on, but those who are against the existence of the animation program/plugin just got a lot more verbose, or at least part of them did.
One would think a random program on the Internet wouldn't cause quite this level of animosity, but it looks like Adobe's Flash is quite the special case.
Granted, calling Adobe Flash just some 'random' application might be a bit much.
After all, many websites use it for some reason or another and it can be used for various animations, interactive or otherwise.
Then again, it is also true that Flash player hasn't exactly impressed everyone.
Testifying to that, Adobe has announced that it will stop developing flash for the mobile market (as we said here) and TV Flash too.
It looks like there are people who don't want things to stop there.
Of course, there are all kinds of people, so this was practically a given. What was not a given was that the anti-Flash crowd would start a movement to that effect.
“Flash makes the web less accessible. At this point, it's holding back the web,” says Occupy Flash.
The software has been criticized for lack of security, inefficiency and instability, and by announcing the end of the line of mobile flash, it essentially acknowledged that the open standard HTML5 is better.
Occupy Flash say that they aren't precisely campaigning against Adobe, but they don't think Flash should evolve much more and be anything beyond maybe the Adobe Air platform.
“Its time has passed. It's buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn't work on most mobile devices. It's a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology.
“Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often unusable) experience for fast-growing percentage of the users who don't use a desktop browser. It introduces some scary security and privacy issues by way of Flash cookies.”