Developers who supplement Flash with HTML5 may soon tire of Flash—but Adobe has a brief but golden opportunity to create the tools with which rich HTML5 content is created. Let’s see if they figure that out.
Jeffrey Zeldman on Flash, iPad and Standards.
What is news is that the Rubicon has been reached and the die, as it were, has been cast by Apple. The sum of these technologies and their future promise is enough to provide a real alternative to Flash for the first time ever.
Nathan Peretic on The Withering Away of Flash.
Ahem →
Zeldman clarifies his position on Flash, HTML5. Just in case you didn’t get it the first time around.
Virgin America drops Flash from its website. →
The trend seems to be pretty clear to me.
Webmonkey: Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With Internet Explorer 9 →
Very welcome news regarding IE9.
Though Flash may have been necessary in the past to provide functionality in the browser that wasn’t possible using JS, HTML, and CSS, that is no longer the case. Those open web technologies have matured (or will in the near future) and can do most or even all of what is possible with Flash.
Understand The Web →
A must read.
Episode 9: Web Standards →
The beepster to be on The Big Web show. Don’t miss it, folks.
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