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It's been more than a year after Jobs' post disparaging Flash and promising that HTML5 can fill much of the gap. While it has improved, HTML5 on iOS still lags
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
It's been more than a year after Jobs' post disparaging Flash and promising that HTML5 can fill much of the gap.
While it has improved, HTML5 on iOS still lags behind a lot. Apple wins the Flash fight when Angry Birds can run on HTML5. Maybe that is what they're afraid of.
- Anechoic 15y ago>Maybe that is what they're afraid of. Who is "they" in this statement?
- recoiledsnake 15y agoApple.
- ugh 15y agoWhy is that necessary? Angry Birds works just fine as an iOS app. For Flash to become obsolete feature parity of HTML5 is not necessary. If most use cases are covered and if the number of devices without Flash provide enough incentive for content producers and publishers to do without Flash it’s very possible that Flash will disappear slowly.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoAngry Birds was just an example for the level of functionality (graphics, animations etc.).
- ugh 15y agoSure, but why exactly is that level of functionality necessary? It would be wrong to assume that HTML5 needs feature parity.
- doomlaser 15y agoAngry Birds already runs on HTML5. http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
- recoiledsnake 15y agoBut does it work on Safari on iOS?
- doomlaser 15y agoNo, because HTML5's canvas performance on mobile browsers is comparable to Flash's performance on mobile browsers.
- doomlaser 15y agoIncidentally, Flash still outperforms HTML5's Canvas on both desktop and browsers. http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2010/09/17/flash-outperforms-html5-on-mobile-devices/ http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2010/09/17/flash-outperforms-htm...
- starwed 15y agoPossibly the OP meant running on a mobile device? I tried to see if Fennec would handle it, but their browser sniffing didn't let me find out...