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Why HTML5 Won't Kill Flash or Silverlight
- mcpherrinm 16y agoThis kind of post is of a common fallacious argument against HTML5: Stating that there are places HTML5 (by which this post means <video> mainly) lags behind flash, and implicitly implying HTML5 won't change anything. There's no evidence given of the argument that Flash can "leapfrog" HTML5 in any way: Yes, browsers aren't always up to date, but that's just as true with Flash. Flash certainly won't die for years. If it stays in its current state, it surely will as browsers make it increasingly obsolete. Consider Java applets as a technology that flash couldn't entirely replace, but how many of them do you see on the web these days? In my opinion, Flash will become like it. Many users will still have it installed, but mostly to use websites where it is the point, like Netflix. Step back from the hype, the slander, and realize that our toolbox has simply grown with HTML5, and nobody is going to be killing anything. Hopefully we can stop using our hammer on screws now that we've got a screwdriver, but that doesn't kill nails.
- kevinskii 16y agoThis wasn't an argument "against" HTML5 at all. In fact, the blog author pretty clearly agrees with you that it's a welcome addition to our toolbox. His only point is that there will still be a need for these other technologies that are sometimes incorrectly perceived as being rendered obsolete by HTML5.