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This basically reads, "If HTML 5 is so great, why aren't Flash developers, like myself, using it?!" That would be a much more interesting article, and the reas
by jeff18 17y ago
This basically reads, "If HTML 5 is so great, why aren't Flash developers, like myself, using it?!"
That would be a much more interesting article, and the reason is basically because the market share is not there yet, although it is increasing quite a lot. However, to use this as a reason for the continued dominance of Flash is obviously extremely short sighted.
The author himself predicts that the iPad and iPhone like devices will be the future of computing, which lends even more credence to HTML 5, given that all modern mobile devices support WebKit or the equivalent HTML 5 browser.
However, instead of arguing "HTML 5 is no more powerful than Flash", the author needs to argue why an open standard, which is rapidly developing and seeing continuous growth, will not take off.
The author cites a few examples of super powerful Flash web apps and seems to imply that these are the future of desktop applications, however, these are dwarfed by the quantity of new web applications created every day.
The author basically needs to argue why Google and the countless other creators of popular web apps out there would switch to Flash, when the trend seems to be pointing in the opposite direction.
HTML 5 is not so much a "Flash killer" as it is simply "one less reason to have to use Flash".
- robotron 17y agoThe tools are also not there yet. In order for HTML5 to really gain momentum there needs to be a set of tools that are as easy to create with as Flash.
- jeff18 17y agoYou should check out 280north's Atlas. http://280atlas.com/ http://280atlas.com/ It's still in beta, but you can get access to it by preordering it (highly recommended). WebKit's Web Inspector is quite awesome -- Apple actually has bankrolled a few full time employees to work on it, and many more contributors have been hacking away at it for quite some time. In my opinion, it is the best example to learn HTML 5 best practices from (it is written in HTML 5 itself). FireBug is also great (I prefer the WebKit Web Inspector myself, since about 1 year ago, due to its rapid updates) but FireBug is quite excellent. Apple also provides some a rudimentary IDE called Dashcode, which I don't really like, but might be helpful for others. The OS X dashboard has been 100% WebKit / HTML 5 powered for quite some time. Not to say that these are necessarily better than Adobe's dev tools, but the writing is on the wall. The awesome thing is that all of these I have mentioned, with the exception of Dashcode, are open source and rapidly developed both by full time employees of various interested companies and the community.
- mortenjorck 17y agoAtlas looks promising. Just as a side note, though... The introduction video uses Flash.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoThis is very much true, and I've made this point myself several times. However, even so the advantages of Flash's superior tooling are relatively shallow. Once you get to a certain degree of application complexity the native advantages of HTML/CSS/JS and the disadvantages of the convoluted Flash programming model start to show.