techcrunch.com — Adobe's much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing. Today, most documents (PDFs, Word docs, Powerpoint slides) can mostly be viewed only as boxed off curiosities in a Flash player, not as full Web pages. Tomorrow, online document sharing site Scribd will start
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bluecadenzaMay 7, 2010
As long as Steve Jobs says HTML 5 is good they'll mindlessly "baah baah" its praises. Steve Jobs could say the "Disruptor Conflaggelator Matrix Compiler 5.23 Beta Untested Theoretical Edition is the future" and all their fanboys would act like they knew what the hell he was talking about, especially when video standards proved to be proprietary.Some tests saw that more complicated HTML 5 actually uses about as much CPU as Flash does. Its nothing magical and it will be used for a lot more interactivity that Flash has trouble with (web page integration for one, though the Tostito's full screen ad was impressive <a class="user" href="http://vimeo.com/9194146%29." rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/9194146%29.</a> And Flash will stay for games and the like.
mrcoldheartMay 7, 2010
My tuition.
kzerMay 7, 2010
the only problem with html5, as i see it, is its inability to obfuscate code. some people want their code inaccessible.
blasterboMay 7, 2010
HTML5 is pretty far from doing what you can do i Flash .. and JavaScript is years away from doing what you can in ActionScript3 (if it's a competitor at all)On top of that we're running back to having to code specifically for specific browser-quirks. Will InternetExplorer and Safari implement the same JavaScript papers ? I'm simply saying that there are no alternative to Flash.As a designer and developer I need a unified platform executing my code and animation .. cross platform. The issue as I see it, is that while Adobe is a company and thus not an open/free is does provide fantastic progress to the "rich internet". Given the speed and freedom of other companies to implement subsets of standards of the open standards the HTML5 / javascript isn't an alternativ yet. The vast majority of users will use the browsers in the OS .. so are we going back to IE6 issues on a much broarder scale ?
agretMay 8, 2010
Chrome dev channel gets 142 /160 :)
crazedchemistMay 8, 2010
He's providing a counterpoint. So yeah, it's not the point.
burylinkMay 9, 2010
IE never supported SVG, sure the Adobe had a plugin for it, but IE probably kept SVG from taking off more than anyone.