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Why Flash is oldschool and HTML5 is the raising star. Cool Demo.
Julian Buss, June 4th, 2010 09:23:05
Tags: Development
You know that Apple don't like Flash anymore and doesn't include it in the iPad. Personally, I never liked Flash in the first place because it needs a non-standard plugin in the browser, and I can never be sure that the visitor has the most recent version of that plugin. Same goes to Microsoft Silverlight; I know that it's awesome and one can do incredible cool things with that technology, nevertheless, it needs a plugin, so I would never use it for public websites / webapps.
HTML5 seems to be the way to go. And Apple just published a demo what HTML5 can do. Note, that demo only runs in the Safari browser. Most other browsers should be able to do the same, but I think Apple want to show how nice all that stuff works on the iPad and therefore made it Safari only. Here is the demo: http://www.apple.com/html5/
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Why Flash is oldschool and HTML5 is the raising star. Cool Demo.
"Note, that demo only runs in the Safari browser" Is this the way to create a new cartel? Apple as "new MicroSoft"? Kind regards from (sunny) Nuernberg Werner Motzet 2)
Why Flash is oldschool and HTML5 is the raising star. Cool Demo.
I knew that someone would give this kind of comment :-) No, I don't think that the fact that the demo runs in safari only should be overstressed. HTML5 stuff is standardized and I expect that one could build the same demo for other modern browsers, if the same subset of HTML5 as Safari does. The point is: HTML5 is standardized, and every browser vendor can support it if he likes. It's nothing like the special HTML stuff for Internet Explorer in dark age of web design. 3)
Why Flash is oldschool and HTML5 is the raising star. Cool Demo.
For more generic things that work in FireFox and Chrome check out this cool site: { Link } 4)
Why Flash is oldschool and HTML5 is the raising star. Cool Demo.
Pretty impressive. 5)
Why Flash is oldschool and HTML5 is the raising star. Cool Demo.
@1: Agree. Showing the new "HTML 5 Standard" in a Safari-only demo of HTML5? BAHAHA! If one is arguing for standards and interoperability, isn't it a bit ironic that Flash will play on a large number of platforms, yet their demo only plays on their product? Apple is pure evil. How they still come off as counter-culture renegades to most fans will always baffle me. It's their business to run as they please, but I choose not to buy their products and largely ignore their message of 'standards'. |
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