2011/12/9 Carlos Rabassa <[email protected]>: > I asked, how would you write an application to allow any user to use it by > clicking on a link? And I gave him a link to the example of the cat. > > HTML5 was the answer. > > Then I asked, what about Flash? > > The answer was that it can be used but is not what he would recommend to use > today because Flash, after having been great, is now on the way out. > > Flash is owned by Adobe and there are rumors they will not support it any > longer. Adobe came up with Adobe Air. Most new applications are required > to work with smart phones and tablets; this is the big force pushing Flash > out and HTML5 in. > > He said "free" when referring to HTML5. I don´t know if he meant it > qualifies as free software.
HTML5 is a set of free and open standards. Yes, you can safely build free software applications using HTML5. I have long been arguing that we should be using HTML5 more in Sugar, and even funded some development towards making it happen [1]. Sugar Labs are working to make this possible [2]. Sridhar [1] https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/742 [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/WebKit Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
