{"id":268,"date":"2009-02-24T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/more-flash-hate-and-graceful-degradation\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:05:03","slug":"more-flash-hate-and-graceful-degradation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/more-flash-hate-and-graceful-degradation\/","title":{"rendered":"More Flash Hate and Graceful Degradation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/air\">Adobe&#8217;s website for Air<\/a> (their cross-platform &#8216;web for the desktop&#8217; technology) requires Flash 10.  If you have an earlier version of Flash, like <em>75% of the visitors to my website<\/em>, then you see a big blank box.<\/p>\n<p>This is a terrible mistake for the company that makes Flash.  In no way does it inspire confidence that Flash is accessible.<\/p>\n<p>The real irony is <strong>Adobe&#8217;s own website was the <em>first<\/em> website I&#8217;ve seen that was incompatible with the version of Flash I was using<\/strong>.  If other websites leveraged Flash 10, they gracefully degraded so that I could use them with Flash 9.<\/p>\n<p>When I finally upgraded, I couldn&#8217;t see why Adobe&#8217;s website needed Flash 10 was required.  I wasn&#8217;t wowed.  All I saw was some fancy transitions between slow-loading flash videos.<\/p>\n<p>Just by being open, that <em>one<\/em> website used <em>125% of my CPU<\/em> even when I wasn&#8217;t interacting with it.  No joke, 125% is what OS X reported.  I am using a dual core machine, so the 125% means that 100% of one CPU, <em>and<\/em> 25% of another were used &#8212; just to render a webpage <em>I wasn&#8217;t even looking at<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Adobe fine with alienating 75% of the internet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why can&#8217;t they make their own website <a href=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/optimize-cpu-usage-of-your-website\/\">laptop friendly<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why should I trust their new Air platform that &#8220;lets developers use proven web technologies&#8221;  if its own website won&#8217;t just work for me?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe&#8217;s website for Air (their cross-platform &#8216;web for the desktop&#8217; technology) requires Flash 10. If you have an earlier version of Flash, like 75% of the visitors to my website, then you see a big blank box. This is a terrible mistake for the company that makes Flash. In no way does it inspire confidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,53],"tags":[321,362,97,322,81],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-announcement","tag-adobe","tag-air","tag-epic-fail","tag-flash","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}