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The whole point is to replace Flash with a better alternative.
by pervycreeper 11y ago
The whole point is to replace Flash with a better alternative.
- anon1385 11y agoOr to put it another way: they want to turn normal web pages into Flash sites.
- leohutson 11y agoThe only reason flash is blockable is because other web technologies, primarily open ones, have limited the need for it. If no attempt was made to match the feature sets of closed, single vendor plugins like flash, realplayer, QuickTime, ActiveX etc, then the majority of the webapps and media sites would be made using those tools. I think the same is true for games now. Do you really want every game engine developer to have their own plugin, with all the security vulnerabilities that will entail?
- pjmlp 11y agoNo, because we already have native and the browser should be left alone for interactive documents.
- pervycreeper 11y agoI think that's a separate problem. We've already crossed the rubicon on having "active" content on the web. A valid concern, nonetheless.
- cousin_it 11y agoI wish that alternative was confined to a plugin running in a rectangle on the page. Otherwise game theory incentives make every site add a megabyte of JavaScript to every article, and stop you from reading unless you load the whole megabyte.
- fbender 11y agoThat's happening today (just check the "big" news sites) just as it happened before with Flash-based sites. But that is just bad habit of programmers, not the issue with the technology per se.
- SquareWheel 11y agoNon-essential Javascript is usually added to the bottom of the page, or set to async to prevent it from blocking page loading.
- devloper 11y agoThe only thing they forgot is consulting Flash developers. Most of them despise HTML5 as inferior. Developer experience is as important as user experience.