I hear this time and time again. "Flash is dead" and it is, except when it isn't. Beatport Sounds use it for playing samples, which means that I cannot use that site on my phone. Since WP8 is so locked down, the only browser option is IE 10 Mobile, so locking me out of flash means that one of the sites I want to go to is not fully functional for me. As a user, that pisses me off.
=> contact them to have them fix/adjust their site for Windows Phone 8 and help us make Flash deader (yes, there is no honor in kicking a man who is down, but sometimes it just is the best for both parties involved) http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/... may be a helpful link for them.
I just had to try this. I navigated to that site on my phone (using this link) and when I click the play button it acts just as if I clicked any link with a "#" as the href. It brings me to the top and nothing. I guess I'll try and get in contact with Beatport to get their site to work on WP8.
"Flash is dead" means that few developers will allow it as a technology dependency for new long term projects. It doesn't mean that every web site you use will work fine without it.
I think the point jetti is trying to make though is not that Flash isn't dead as a platform, it clearly is for mobile. The point is that it may be dead for new projects, but there are still millions of existing ones that use it. So, if you don't support it with your mobile device, you're basically saying please have a difficult time using our device if you are a regular user of that service/site.
Thankfully this will likely only be a Problem for another year or so. A huge swell of interest and uptake into mobile platforms, (Pew shows north of 120 million smartphone and tablet owners in the US alone) means that very quickly a site that want to have a reasonably sized audience will have to adjust to the mobile platform. Regardless - it's a moot point as adobe communicated they will not be developing flash for mobile platforms.
not even IE, all the modern browsers for mobile OS, all shut the door to Flash. but than does'n mean you can't watch online videos on, like youtube.
as users, we should welcome the new technology, rather than the good old days stuff. Flash used to be master and excellent, but time changed. They can't manage at every time, they need to be replaced by other new comers.
