Adobe Flash Player has been around for over a decade and has become the unofficial standard medium for delivering animation and streaming video. Many individuals have challenged its effectiveness, but no challenges have been taken as seriously as Apple’s. Steve Jobs has made it clear that Apple has no intentions of running Flash on their iPhone or iPad.
As we enter into the second decade of 21st Century web design, one cannot help but ask the question: Is Flash still needed? Should web designers use Flash, and to what extent?
