Soo… you are thinking of doing something cool and cutting edge on a website, but if you’re like me, you’re not thinking of Flash, am I right?

But what are you thinking of using? Jquery, for one.  But that only gets you so far.  You can do some cool stuff, but it’s not flash.  So you look into HTML5, and wonder how much you can do with that.  You can do some stuff, alright, but what you cannot do is control which browser your target audience uses.  HTML5 is a minefield of partially supported stuff.   For the most part, IE is not even in the game.  IE9 is doing the roadshow with the big release, but guess what?  It will not run on XP.

So do you decide to advise your client to disregard the iOS crowd (ipads, iphones, x100 million devices) and go ahead with flash? Seems like a bad idea. I contacted a flash developer acquaintance, Jack Doyle over at Greensock, and he was confident in his assurance that Flash isn’t going anywhere. That may be true for flash / flex applications, but I’m afraid we’ve seen the beginning of the end for flash websites. It’s just an awkward time for implementing much more than jquery, ajax and javascript-based affects.