I used to make these things with AS3 some 10 years ago...
Is there a market for these types of websites?
Maybe I should create some kind of "interactive web experience" and see if I can get some clients.
Is there a market for these types of websites?
Maybe I should create some kind of "interactive web experience" and see if I can get some clients.
Actually I don’t really wonder; Flash is well dead, but it’s interesting to ponder!
I work for a company that does both SVG+JS and Flash media, still. The web-tech media is smoother (because 60fps), but the Flash media has a much higher complexity ceiling — which is why we haven't 100% switched to the web yet (and because our clients still prefer and pay for the Flash stuff, sigh)
HTML5 can not even streaming vector animations.
Despite all of the improvements in browser support for JS/CSS driven animation since the glory days of Flash 10 years ago, the web seems more static and text/image heavy than ever.
Yes it has. You could even create your own shaders/filters with a specialized language. Frankly it's great that things like that can be done with js/html but people did way more impressive things 15 years ago.
I'm really not impressed at all, personally.
I think things are more polished now, because of bandwidth we can afford large images, videos, etc but back in the day there was some truly impressive Flash stuff.
I’m talking about hardware acceleration, antialias, no dropped frame and in sync with the monitor’s refresh rate.
Even a simple CSS3 animation beats the shit out of Flash in this regard.
All supported by flash, I just told you about the possibility of coding your own shaders with a C like language where do you think these shaders were computed?
> Well, show me a link then. We can still run it (not for long).
You know damn well that most flash content has been retired from the web.
My jaw dropped when I saw webkit translate(). Not everyone notices but it makes all the difference to some.
>You know damn well that most flash content has been retired from the web.
I’m sure most of the impressive demos can still be dug out.
I understand it was possible to compute on the GPU with AS3, but the end result, rendered inside the plugin box of a browser never felt this fluid.
Take a look here if u care: https://thefwa.com/
I've been asking for a proof that Flash can be as smooth as native browser technologies. So far, I've seen only words.
But SVG is the only browser graphics tech with excellent tooling for illustrators (namely, Illustrator). So we've been forced to change both our art style, and our rendering stack, to deal with the death of Flash.
That's life in the tech industry, fine. But it's misguided to say that the browser is unequivocally better or worse performing than Flash. It really depends what you're making, and how you make it.
It's totally possible to make something on the web that looks and performs better than it would in Flash. But you have to put strict restrictions on what kind of art you use, and what technology you use to render that art, which puts restrictions on your production process, which sucks.