On Wednesday 06 Jul 2011 15:12:53 Sanjay B wrote: > > http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/ > > Nooo!! > Well, in principle this sounds like maybe a nice idea, but, just my > personal views: > > i> It supports only a subset of features in Flash, so is always going to > be considered 'inferior', and for a lot of projects, impractical, etc.
Better something than nothing, besides being fresh of the block > ii> It continues lock-in with adobe's proprietary development tools, > giving the illusion that one can use CS3 Flash or whatever and create > something that works as Flash and html5, which is not true, due to point > i>. EEK. > iii> From what I can tell, though this is not backed up by hard numbers, > the html 5 generated seems to perform worse than the flash versions. This > creates the impression that html 5 is 'slower', which I don't believe is > true but has more to do with the conversion / generation process. Liveable for starters. > It's mostly point ii> that makes me a bit uneasy - I find lock-in to > adobe's monstrous development tools a bit scary, and this seems to > perpetuate that rather than get away from it .. I may be looking at it > from a wrong angle though .. +1. The whole point is to get away from that bear hug, performance notwithstanding. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
