Flash99%...What???

  1. Ávila Muñoz, Raquel 1
  2. Mediavilla, Jorge Clemente 2
  3. Pérez-Luque Maricalva, María José 3
  1. 1 ESNE Escuela Universitaria de Diseño, Innovación y Tecnología. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Estudiante de doctorado)
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.
  3. 3 ESNE (Escuela Universitaria de Diseño, Innovación, y Tecnología), Madrid.
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Journal:
Grafica: documents de disseny gràfic = documentos de diseño gráfico = journal of graphic design

ISSN: 2014-9298

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 8

Issue: 16

Pages: 29-35

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5565/REV/GRAFICA.184 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Google Chrome will stop supporting Flash by the end of 2020. We consider the possibility that this tool, which defined an entire era of web design, will go down in history remembered in negative terms like those in Nielsen´s “Flash: 99% bad” and Jobs´ reasons for avoiding this technology on Apple´s mobile devices. We present the information gathered to define an online research designed to answer this question. The query, triggered during Symposium grafica, will use a “snowball” sampling strategy, and will remain active until the deactivation of the plugin on the Google search engine. 

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