- slow
- fairly unstable, even on Windows
- a privacy nightmare (cookie system)
- being left behind by browser vendors, where there is competition
Excanvas on IE and the canvas tag are really well placed for visualisations like these. I built a donut chart in Canvas recently for something I'm working on, and I'm glad I did, because I was able to do an impromptu demo with someone just the other day on my phone.
I know it's not a critical piece of engineering, and it doesn't actually matter, but I do personally find Flash dulls my enthusiasm for otherwise very nice things!
Actually, I did need that 25% for something else. Was waiting for code to finish compiling (well, for Clang's Static Analyzer to finish running). It takes more then a few minutes to run on a sizable project.
Plus, as jrockway pointed out, it absolutely kills battery life, and I'm on a laptop.
[edit] That's absolutely amazing - youtube videos now load faster in my browser than they do in windows media player. Thanks again!
I hope the author checks out something like Raphael (JS SVG library) and converts it though, because Flash is definitely tacky.
Enjoy :)
In all seriousness though: I simply wanted to learn Flash. As an iPhone user myself, I realize its frustrating that it doesn't show up. That being said, even if it did show up you wouldn't be able to make much of it because of the screen size and the sheer business of the chart. It's really meant to be viewed in a normal browser.
One criticism: Flash?