Don't forget Flex/AIR that let you develop hybrids for the browser and desktop.
Flash has slowly matured out of the "punch the monkey"/videoplayer/games niche over the last years and the >90% installed userbase is not going anywhere soon.
I despise adobe and the various problems (linux plugin) like the next guy. But still I'm using it for a lot of frontend work - simply because creating a RIA with HTML and Javascript is like peeling your eyes out with a spoon.
HTML5 won't change that fundamentally, at best it's a babystep into a welcome direction.
Downvotes without comment are just lovely. I realize this is not a popular opinion ("OMG, he defends flash!"). But unless you have worked with both HTML/JS and Flash/Flex it'd be great if you could at least add a comment to your vote.
Agreed. I work with Flash developers, and the way they work is so many light years different from how web programmers work that I wonder how anyone can think it's even comparable to HTML/JS at all.
Flash has slowly matured out of the "punch the monkey"/videoplayer/games niche over the last years and the >90% installed userbase is not going anywhere soon.
I despise adobe and the various problems (linux plugin) like the next guy. But still I'm using it for a lot of frontend work - simply because creating a RIA with HTML and Javascript is like peeling your eyes out with a spoon.
HTML5 won't change that fundamentally, at best it's a babystep into a welcome direction.