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A big, key component is the creation of proper tools for building HTML 5 apps. If someone could start building an HTML 5 tool that makes simple Flash-style anim

by timdorr 17y ago

A big, key component is the creation of proper tools for building HTML 5 apps. If someone could start building an HTML 5 tool that makes simple Flash-style animations as simple to build as Flash itself, that would dramatically increase uptake. As it is right now, you really need to be a programmer to use it. Microsoft has realized this with Silverlight and has working on these kinds of tools for the next release. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing more use of it once those tools are out there (which I'm fine with, since it seems faster than Flash in my experience).

mishmash 17y ago
But it's still owned by Microsoft, which isn't okay in my experience. ;)
ZeroGravitas 17y ago
When you say "simple Flash-style animations" did you mean to say "annoying advertisements"?
cjbos 17y ago
Right now the biggest industry tool for building standard-based websites is still Dreamweaver from Adobe. Interesting to see if they will be quick to add HTML5 features to Dreamweaver to stay ahead of the curve, or try to protect the Flash platform by being slow to add the features.
- 10ren 17y ago
  Adobe really impress me as a company who has been through that territory a few times, starting with fonts in postscript, way back in the mid 80's I think, only 2-3 years after the company's formation. With their recent(ish) acquisition of Flash (Macromedia), they also opened up the Flash fileformat and protocol (yeah, flash is an open standard), which seems to me to have been intended to deflate nascent open source alternatives. (If you haven't heard of them, it's measure of the success of Adobe's strategy.) I think Adobe is adding support for HTML5 as we speak (or and perhaps a standalone product); that it will only release it when it is strategically advantageous to Adobe; that it will protect Flash by improving it beyond the features available in HTML5. Note how Photoshop has managed to stay ahead of the Gimp.

by timdorr 17y ago

mishmash 17y ago

But it's still owned by Microsoft, which isn't okay in my experience. ;)

ZeroGravitas 17y ago

When you say "simple Flash-style animations" did you mean to say "annoying advertisements"?

cjbos 17y ago

Right now the biggest industry tool for building standard-based websites is still Dreamweaver from Adobe. Interesting to see if they will be quick to add HTML5 features to Dreamweaver to stay ahead of the curve, or try to protect the Flash platform by being slow to add the features.

10ren 17y ago
Adobe really impress me as a company who has been through that territory a few times, starting with fonts in postscript, way back in the mid 80's I think, only 2-3 years after the company's formation. With their recent(ish) acquisition of Flash (Macromedia), they also opened up the Flash fileformat and protocol (yeah, flash is an open standard), which seems to me to have been intended to deflate nascent open source alternatives. (If you haven't heard of them, it's measure of the success of Adobe's strategy.) I think Adobe is adding support for HTML5 as we speak (or and perhaps a standalone product); that it will only release it when it is strategically advantageous to Adobe; that it will protect Flash by improving it beyond the features available in HTML5. Note how Photoshop has managed to stay ahead of the Gimp.