On 14/04/2010 13:10, Guy Morton wrote:
Flipping this whole discussion on its head for a moment....
Adobe used to have the best SVG runtime player in the land. It was
fast, had good support for the SVG standard and it was stable.
Then Adobe bought Macromedia. They discontinued development and
support for their SVG player because now they had Flash!
Adobe could, I'm sure, alter their Flash development tools to output
SVG+Javascript. In fact, I'd be surprised if they hadn't already
experimented with this.
If Adobe was as smart as they think they are, they'd RIGHT NOW
fast-track SVG+Javascript export into Flex and Flash IDEs. This would
let them become the premier tool for developing iPhone apps,
standards-based web vector animations and would encourage adoption of
open standards at such a rate that it'd hobble Silverlight into the
bargain!
Flash is here because standards sucks. When standards will be good
enough, flash will disappear, bunt won't happen anytime soon.
Of course that is just an idle dream, and instead they will keep
pushing their proprietary solution and wait for the killer
open-standards IDE that will allow developers to make full use of HTML
5 to pop up and change the market for them. Then we will see Flash
become a thing of the past.
eg check this out
http://demo.sproutcore.com/sample_controls/
<http://demo.sproutcore.com/sample_controls/>
Look familiar? Look ma! NO plugins, just HTML 5!
I don't know for others, but it reminds me of Flash 5 ten years old with
extra crossbrowser issues.
Let me think... hell no, don't want to go there :)
Maybe in few years HTML will be like flash 8, and few more years it will
be like flash 10. There will be flash 16 and AS4 by the time, another
gap for HTML to reach.
So, yeah, good luck with your HTML mate, I wish you good luck, really.
Vale Flash, you have been good to us, but your time is drawing to a
close. Steve Jobs has seen the future, and Flash ain't there.
Guy
The future where Apple dictates what you can install on your phone, what
you can see on the web, what music you can listen ?
Sound great, see you there :)
