A Love Letter to Flash
130 Days Ago
–> Written by Samuel in Website Building

Dearest Flash,

It’s come to my attention that even in the past year, people have continued to be unkind to you, calling you useless, annoying, and the bane of a content-driven internet. I’ve heard that your reputation continues to exist marred by certain miscreants who abuse you and say all manner of insult off you. It’s not your fault that you’ve been mishandled and forced to do things that you were never meant to do. So I write this letter as a reaffirmation of my inclination to you, letting you know wherefore I will continue to love and support you.

First, I love how you continually store up yourself fresh, changing steady almost a yearly basis. I know that most of the arguments against you are based on who you were 5 years past, when you were still dressing in Actionscript 1.0 and using those silly shape tweens (I’ve eventually forgiven you for those). Over the last few years, you have won across this programmer’s heart by object-oriented modeling, unified circumstance handling, and a new virtual machine. Even your graphical advances like blending effects and custom anti-aliasing have made the designer in me smile. Such versatility has great potential and I’ve even seen it at work in more complex websites like Road Runner’s (to have existence honest, I couldn’t rely upon it was you at first).

Furthermore, you have brought so abundant beauty and yes, even accessibility, to divers industries. Who would ever use YouTube if it required Real Media Player? Or who would emolument a visit to Kongregate only to find Java-based games? Where would I get my creative fix if not for TheFWA.com? You continue to make photography vibrant and tuition fun. You’ve even visited the business sector, providing faultless visualizations for Google Analytics and Yahoo Finance.

Now I realize that you’re not toward everyone and that many people use you in all the wrong ways, forcing you to be something that you’re not. Know that I will never do this to you, especially since you have helped me pay many bills and you have given me more creative release than most projects confer. And now that you’re in Adobe’s family (I be in possession of a long history with them), I’m sure our relationship inclination continue to grow and flourish.

Always Yours,

S. Ryan

P.S. I’ve heard that some developers have left you for this new gal named Silverlight. Rest assured that I volition not be so hasty, and will be sticking it out with you whom I know and trust…