Comments on: Learn HTML 5

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:50:59 +0000

Adobe has just announced they are stopping development of Flash for Mobile… hmmm… didn’t see that coming! [/sarcasm]

They are putting more resources into HTML5 tools/etc….

The future is HTML 5… Steve Jobs RIP.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:40:02 +0000

html 5 will make the web open source.

By: ellabella

ellabella — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:25:53 +0000

openMic

Flash is a pig. Is that a good enough reason? I love programming in flash as much as the next guy.. but from a user’s standpoint, flash is not ideal.

I can’t speak for flex since i haven’t really gotten into it but i hear it’s good.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:07:13 +0000

HTML 5 is not a Flash replacement, rather a free and easy way to display video on a webpage. For me, I’m not a big fan of proprietary software that requires you to upgrade and exhaust resources. However, what Flash is capable of is amazing when used correctly. My son plays many educational Flash games online and they are fantastic.

Flash certainly has it’s place in the www, however, it should not be required to play video on a webpage. That’s the browser’s job.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:28:31 +0000

Has anyone considered the importance of advertising in this whole HTML5 vs Flash debate? One of the main reasons that most internet content is free is because people/companies are willing to pay vast sums of money to have their banner ads and rich media content displayed all over the place on other people’s sites, and that whole industry is still massively reliant on Flash. Unless it’s possible to build similar content in HTML5 with the same speed and flexibility that you can in Flash, and with the same number of (relatively) cheap designers available to actually work on them (and I mean designers, not coders), then I just can’t see it being a viable alternative. I make these ads for a living, and I can tell you the turnaround times are really tight, and the creative is subject to any number of changes all the way through the build – they’re really not the sort of things you can ever apply a rigid, well-thought-out structure to.

I also think there’d be issues with actually serving the ads in HTML5. At the moment it’s all done through third party platforms like DoubleClick, EyeBlaster, DART, etc, with the Flash files being hosted in a central location and then ‘served’ to a target area on a particular site, but would HTML5 work in the same way? Or would it have to be hard-coded directly into the web page it was being displayed on?

Don’t get me wrong – I can definitely see the advantage of HTML5 for a lot of web content going forward (particularly on mobile devices), but I just can’t see it taking Flash’s crown in the world of web advertising – the people/companies who actually pay for the ads love fast and they love cheap above everything else, and that’s still Flash…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:48:52 +0000

Besides the arguments for non-proprietary software and efficiency, you have to consider that many people around the world cannot afford adobe licenses or other proprietary licenses and are going to have to utilize the HTML5 functionality. I believe that web content generated from low-income developers will increase steeply and that is going to drive up the use of HTML5 and motivate all browsers to be fully compatible/optimized for it. Especially with technologies like Processing.js (www.processingjs.org) being developed it will become easier to add graphics to HTML5 web pages without proprietary software. On the other hand, companies that produce good software should be able to profit from it because everyone has to make a living. I hope that Adobe continues to innovate and set the standard so that they can stay viable.

By: Lopes

Lopes — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:49:21 +0000

I’ve been using xhtml strict and css2 for the last couple of years. In this short timespace I was able to see that each browser has its own way of rendering the content. Specially when it comes to Microsoft Browsers…

I have never tried flash, because I can’t afford it. But, if I could, I would really give it a try over HTML5, because I think choosing HTML5 (which isn’t even in its final version yet) to develop content for a website with major effect will give you, at least, 10 times the work you would be doing to develop the same thing with flash.

No matter what you do, flash will allways be displayed equally to all the users, in any supported browser and operating system. I’m 99,9% sure that this won’t happen at all when you create something with major animations using HTML5. You will find out the stuff you created isn’t being displayed equally on all major browsers. Just like if it were HTML4…

I do want to see HTML5 as a standard. I do want to see it supported in every single browser available. But, as long as people use the older browsers (ie: Internet Explorer 6, 7 and more recently, I will have to pick the great strict xhtml and css2.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:56:31 +0000

HTML 5 is better than Flash because it respects accessibility a lot more than Adobe Flash. If a blind user uses the VoiceOver screen reader on Mac OS 10, there is no way to access flash content. If there is some live webcast that a blind person wants/needs to listen to, there is no way they can hit the play button on the Flash player to play the content. If HTML 5 is used, a blind person can press the play button just like any other button on a web page. In a civilized society, people with disabilities need to have the same amount of access to information as a non-disabled person. In short, unless Adobe makes flash fully accessible, it needs to be squashed like a bug and replaced with HTML 5 or another accessible standard.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:23:46 +0000

I’m excited about HTML 5 and CSS3. As a primary HTML/CSS developer, I am always thrilled with the capabilities of CSS.

Nothing is going to replace Flash because it’s an industry standard! Even the $700.00 that people shell out…people are still going to buy it and use it. It’s possibilities are endless really!

By: Paulus

Paulus — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:12:09 +0000

HTML 5 goes a long way towatrd making the WWW what is was in Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision; Open, free and for everyone!

Proprietary software and plugins and support are always going to have a corporate interest behind it. This has been great for Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc, but nothing has moved the Internet forward like User-Generated Content.

People are what make the web, not companies or even the technologies. This will give everyone more choice, not just the choice of those with the budget to advertise across the globe to gullible iConsumers and even more gullible businesses.

If HTML 5 is a standards-compliant and interoperable as promised, then this is the future and programmers will need to step up or step off.

Frankly, why pay thousands for an Adobe ActionScript course, or pay hundreds for an Apple Developer license, or thousands for Microsoft’s .NET software when the real power is back in Notepad. Meaning the real power is in the hands of creative programmers, not code-heads or Flash gurus, but a new breed which incorporates the best of everything and everyone.