With the iPad being released and it not supporting Adobe Flash I thought it would be a good idea to see if I could browse the web for 1 day without flash. Here are the results:
Pros
- The browser seems to perform much better with Flash disabled when visiting websites who have Flash content. Most of them only use Flash for some fancy stuff. Without Flash installed they use static images instead.
- Less CPU usage!
Cons
- It is impossible to view the nice graphical information in your Google Analytics reports, also the calendar in Google Analytics uses Flash. The Google Analytics website is pretty useless without Flash.
- Youtube.. Most of the videos are available without Flash when you join the HTML5 Beta, but there are still videos who require to have Flash installed (most of them are videos with advertisements in it).
- Other video sites I visit however do not yet support the HTML5 video tag, so they are pretty unusable to me now.
- Most of the games online are Flash games..
As you can see the results are clear, the internet is not yet ready to get rid of Flash but I’m sure HTML5 (it isn’t even finished yet) and whatever comes after it will replace Flash at some point but till then I just keep Flash installed and enabled.