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.
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.
Zeldman clarifies his position on Flash, HTML5. Just in case you didn’t get it the first time around.
The trend seems to be pretty clear to me.
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.
The beepster to be on The Big Web show. Don’t miss it, folks.
Not that it really matters anymore, anyway. Once Steve Jobs starts using the term the cat has been let out of the bag.
Mozilla Firefox 4 demos. The lovely design and development is by Weightshift.
Web education is a tough task with the fast pace of technology. Great to see WaSP taking the problem head on.
