Initially, we thought that our Camp tagline of “5280 Reasons to use the Flash Platform” was a little tongue-in-cheek.  We’re a mile high, there are lots of reasons to use Flash – point made.

Now, it seems like a challenge to come up with the list, and we’d like you to help us!  We’ll keep our running list here.  Don’t see your favorite?

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5280 Reasons to Use the Flash Platform

Can’t beat the price on the Flash Player

Key frames, tweens, and the timeline (oh my!)

Over 1,000,000 Flash Platform designers and developers (source)

Not having to code for different browsers

Everyone and their grandma has Flash (99% of the Internet!)

Chuck Norris has Flash on his computer

Flash will be your friend on Facebook

Flash is available without a prescription

Ron Burgundy keeps Flash next to a bottle of his finest Scotch

Already available

It’s the most downloaded piece of software in the history of computers

Expansive (covers so much)

ActionScript development is available

Can’t beat the price on the Flash Player

Flash is the #1 platform for delivering video on the web (source)

Lots of tools (that you don’t even need to know how to develop)

All your browsers are belong to us!

It keeps us Flex developers employed

Build your own Facebook Application

Small but powerful Player (1.8MB)

Everyone and their grandma has watched video online of their son getting hit in the jewels on YouTube (70% of all online video is Flash)

Building desktop applications with the Flash Platform is a breeze

Game development without the C++!

Hands down there is no better solution for RIA

There is a very robust ecosystem built around the Flash Platform

Ability to extend it readily

Awesome Adobe developer community

Interoperability with existing servers

Ease of deployment on clients

Gold standard in eLearning delivery

Balance of visual and functional

Real cross platform deployment

All the cool kids are doing it

MXML is the best layout language in the world

The Flash platform, if diced really small, adds a fine spiciness to most stews

ActionScript is fun

It makes beautiful animations other web technologies can’t

Juan uses it

If YoutTube relies on it, so can you

Adobe gave me a pretty cool back pack a few years ago

Smells like rainbows and happiness

Gold Standard for rich and engaging content over the browser

Eight of the top ten companies in the financial services, healthcare, and consumer electronics industries use Flex (source)

The Flash player doesn’t play flash content; it beats it mercilessly into submission

Over 1,000,000 Flash Platform designers and developers (source)

Because we’ve come a long way from “skip intro”, baby!

Serious action in that script!

Fast and easy app development that can be deployed on all platforms

Integration with other Creative Suite products like Fireworks and Illustrator

Flash has revolutionize the web experience we see today

You don’t have to make Flash content differently at higher altitudes

It’s been around since 1996

Using the same code to deploy to desktop, web, phones, and other media

The Flash platform can count to infinity

The Flash platform is 99% fat free

It’s FLEXable!

The Flash platform can slam a revolving door

Less testing as applications run consistently between browsers & operating systems

The Flash platform can fix your cable

Flash Player 8+ installed on 99% of connected desktops* (*Millward Brown survey- conducted September 2009)

Quicktime sucks

Flash is fluid

Flash is sexy

Flash is sexier than traditional web technologies

Flash is browser independent

Flash is browser INDEPENDENT!

ActionScript 3 is Object Oriented

AS3 is very capable, and supports proven methods and techniques because of its OOP-compliance

Adobe is stronger than ever and that doesn’t look like its gonna change any time soon

AIR

FLEX

If you build in it, they will come

Flash will tuck you in, AND read you a bedtime story

Flash can play “Stairway to Heaven”

Flash Games- ’nuff said…

Flash is taller than George Washington

Video playback that works

Real-time communication between client Flash pieces through Flash Media Server

It’s non-toxic and safe for babies

Good backwards compatibility for those old ActionScript 1 projects in the basement

Flash Remoting builds character

Its Trace Bitmap function makes more sense than Illustrator’s

Easy game development by tying visual assets to classes

Flex once saved a baby from a burning apartment building while fighting the Green Goblin

Rigging!

Learning ActionScript preps you for learning JavaScript and vice versa

“Flash… AhAhhh… Savior of the Universe!” – Queen

Even my mom can use it

eLearning made easy

You can always find some flash game to play online

Streaming music from Grooveshare.com, Pandora.com, etc

Flash has the Flex-ability of AIR

It leaves messages in your cheerios – Oooooooh…

It’s less work than nap time

It’s faster than driving in the HOV lane

It’s easier than Sunday morning

It’s more fun that putting stuff on your cat

Flash loves you. It loves you a bunch. ‘Cause it always puts Skippy in your lunch

Flash is stronger than Hercules, Superman, and Mr T combined

Scientifically proven to be better than pancakes

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