22
Sep

I hate Adobe and their bugs

Seriously, Flash is so bugged. I hate spending hours trying to find what’s going on. 91% of developers might not see that but people who are really into advanced stuff have to face flash bugs on daily basis. Actually best flash developers don’t know AS3 better than others or have deeper design patterns knowledge. They are valuable because THEY KNOW THESE BUGS. That’s it.

Last week I have to face with this bug and this bug. May 2008! Come on! You say the bug is fixed?! No way. Flash Builder 4 (SDK 4.1.0) got it.

What about bugs which have not been fixed for years?! What about stupid mouse wheel, wmode=transparent, Russian text input etc?

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  • http://www.wonderwhy-er.com wonderwhy-er

    I absolutely agree, I don’t know if it is Flash becoming buggier or me digging deeper but over span of last year I am stumbling on many horrible bugs and issues…

    When I can I write about them and submit to JIRA or try to vote/subscribe to them if they are already in but boy things are messy when you push Flash beyond promotional sites…

    • Pavel

      So true

  • http://www.web-responsive.com Kim Hansen

    I completely agree.

  • Nick Collins

    The more bugs I find in Flash, the better Silverlight looks. Sure it’s not quite the bees knees yet, but right now I think Microsoft is more motivated to make it as bug free as possible, since they are the underdog here.

    • http://www.wonderwhy-er.com wonderwhy-er

      Hmm I wonder, I loved Flash IDE work flow, perfect for small projects and I wonder if Expression Blend can provide similar work flow.
      Another problem is penetration, many will just don’t want to make social games or promotion websites with Silverlight as penetration is smaller while technical result difference is nonexistent (almost as slow and limited as Flash, or rather even more limmited).

  • thienhaflash

    We all know that bugs have always been the closest companions to adobe flash. Lack of features, blocking to many things is another one. We are all too tired with the so slow flash player, so buggy, so limited … and does anyone want to talk about the flash IDE ?

    • http://www.wonderwhy-er.com wonderwhy-er

      Yeah, since CS3 Flash IDE becoming worse, they may be fix some old problems but add even more… In CS5 there seems to be a lot of bugs with texts/fonts/embedding probably because of new font embedding format and text engine integration in to the IDE…

  • Kees van Dorp

    Why don’t you try HTML5? Hahahah, no I really understand your frustration, but be realistic: do you know a platform which is bugfree? I think Flash isn’t that bad, and within a couple years, when everybody is writing in the much hyped html5 language, you will think back of those Actionscript glory days. Debugging your javascript animation in 4 different browsers and 3 operating systems till 6 in the morning.

  • http://www.wonderwhy-er.com wonderwhy-er

    I actually was leaning to the thought that Flash currently is there where Java was years back… On a downward slope of quality/performance/public opinion… Hope it will get turned to upward slope soon as with Java but it will be quick so that Flash does not become another Java in web space….

  • Marco

    Since 2006, I’ve been watching the number of unresolved Flash Player bugs on Jira rising continuously. That number is now over 1,900. It seems like no one at Adobe has a handle on this.

  • May

    Your bug #1 seems more like a missing convenience feature, I mean it’s kinda logical that positions change with scale, no? #2 is a typical bug though.
    Transparent wmode bugs are browser bugs, to be fair.

    As someone said, no technology is bug free.
    And once you get into HTML5 you’ll miss Flash’s bugs… ;-) and fondly remember these easy-to-solve little issues. Everything HTML/JS/CSS accounts for far more hair pulling than anything else.

    If you desire a bug-free Flash you should promote Flash being made open source. It’s just – then instead of dealing with bugs you might have to deal with fragmentation and incompatible implementations in *different Flash players* similar to the situation we have with different browsers.

    But yes totally agree on the IDE… seems they’re bored, don’t know what to do, then add some half-baked features instead of improving what’s there.

    Cheers, M

    • http://labs.makemachine.net Jeremy

      I support the idea of opening the Flash Player. Let us fix the bugs and add features we need!

  • Mark

    Agreed, i’ve added so many bugs to JIRA over the years and never seen an issue resolved.

    What is the point in having a public bug database if they never get touched. It’s a good way of losing good developers to other platforms. Adobe, just hire a couple of new developers and get these issues fixed!

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