Absolutely. Where HTML5 can replace Flash, it should. I have no problem with that. I actually think HTML5 is pretty cool. I just dont think it needs to be an either/or question, and find the struggle-to-the-death approach that Jobs is championing ludicrous, and find alot of the "Flash is dead because..." statements to be based on false assumptions. Yeah, of course, if you ban it from devices, it will die, but that isnt exactly allowing the technology to evolve organically. Bad technology dies under its own weight. No one needed to drown Netscape or Director or Cobol in the bathtub in order to get rid of them. If Flash's day is done, it will die soon enough on its own. All Jobs has done is convince a whole swath of decision-makers that Flash is toxic and shouldnt be touched, even in cases where Flash is actually the superior option, and thats just a shame. How many game developers are now being asked "We want to do something like http://www.gettheglass.com/....but NOT in Flash, because Flash is dead. You can do that in HTML5 right? And it needs to run perfectly on the iPad".
.m On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll say this again: I see no financial benefit to Adobe for keeping the > Flash Player the standard for a rich Internet. If HTL5 + JS can do everything > - or part of everything - the Flash Player can do. There's no harm done to > Adobe by adding a "Export as HTML5" option. We've even seen it demonstrated > with the Smart Paste videos. > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
