Mate, Dream on about HTML 5 killing off Flash. HTML5 is a standards time bomb waiting to go off.
2009/10/5 Zen <[email protected]> > Hopefully. HTML5 will kill off flash once and for all. Some hope! > > > > On 5 Oct 2009, at 14:19, Dan Brickley wrote: > > Great news, phone fans! >> >> >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8287239.stm >> >> "One of the most common technologies for watching video on a computer >> will soon be available for most smartphones. >> >> Flash software is used to deliver around 75% of online video and is >> the key technology that underpins websites such as YouTube and Google >> Video. >> >> Until now, many smartphones and netbooks have used a "light" version >> of the program, because of the limited processing power of the >> devices. >> >> The new software is intended to work as well on a smartphone as a desktop >> PC. >> >> Adobe, the maker of Flash, said it should be available on most >> higher-end handsets by 2010, although Apple's iPhone would continue >> not to use the software. >> >> "The sort of rich apps we now see being delivered on PCs will now be >> coming to the phone," Ben Wood, director of mobile research at analyst >> firm CCS Insight, told BBC News. >> >> "You'll be able to access a lot of the cool stuff that web designers >> are coming up with." " >> >> ... >> >> "Apple anomaly >> ... >> >> The new software will be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and >> desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later >> this year. >> >> Trial software for Google Android and the popular Symbian operating >> systems are expected to be available in early 2010. >> >> However, it will not be available for the Apple iPhone, according to Mr >> Muraka. >> >> "We're going to need Apple's cooperation," he told BBC News. "At the >> moment Safari (Apple's web browser) doesn't support any kind of >> plug-in [on the iPhone]." >> >> "But we'd love to see it on there." >> >> Mr Wood said he thought that time would come soon. >> >> "As momentum builds, I think Apple will have little choice but to >> embrace it [Flash]," he said. "Watch this space." >> >> Apple did not respond to requests for comment. " >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, >> please visit >> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Onumonu --------------------------------------------------------------------- Blog www.cisnky.com Twitter www.twitter.com/cisnky --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile: +44 (0) 7920 10 25 35 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
