In case you're interested, I'm organising a free event where javascript legend Jeremy Ruston is giving a talk on "HTML5 and the slow death of Flash". Plenty of time for Q&A afterwards! Details here:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4516026/ Cheers, Phil On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:42 PM, cisnky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com
