Adobe has dropped the Flash player on mobile devices have a look at the article here and we can already see a lot of ridiculous and fantaisist articles more based on wishful thinking than on facts flourishing around the web. Some articles are doing the easy jump and are saying that “Flash is dead” without understanding that Flash is not just about banners. For those who are still unsure of what HTML5 is, I will remind you that HTML5 is mainly a language to create application running in the browser nothing else, Flash is used from the web up to desktop development. The Flash haters are really excited by that news but I am afraid they are going to have to wait a long time before they can burry their long time enemy. Flash is alive and kicking!

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There is a hot debate at the moment regarding Flash “vs” HTML5. As a Flash developer I thought I would join in to share some of my points of view. Since I am an Actionscript developer you might think that I am going to fall in the easy and logical attitude of defending Flash and Flex (since Flex is also concerned here) at any cost. That’s not the case. I am also not going to say that HTML5 is the long awaited Messiah that is going to bring a whole new dimension to your web browsing experience. I think that the situation needs to be seen from a more rational and holistic point of view.

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If you have been working with actionscript for a while you should know that the main goal should not just be to “make it work” but to make sure that your code is implemented following the rules of simplicity, clarity and elegance. This is not always easy to achieve especially when you have to work under strict deadlines.

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I have been working with Flash for about 10 years now, I have seen it growing and improving over the years and I became very familiar with that piece of software. Flash is a familiar working environment and when I start developing I know where I need to go and I know how to get there. It took a lot of time and patience, actionscript has changed over the years and I have also felt frustration at times but I have always managed to do what I wanted to do with Flash and I could not see a reason to change the way things were.

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Things have changed a little bit in AS3.0 when it comes to load XML but I am going to show you it is very easy to do once you done it a couple of times.

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