Monday, January 18, 2010

Die Flash Die

Sorry Flash, HTML5 ate your lunch.

Flash used to be a good idea, long long ago, it was a good way of compressing interesting content back in the days when the web was dull and on 56k modems.

Nowdays, the layout/text effects, vector art, audio, (and almost the video) can be done with the DOM, javascript, and fancier stuff with HTML5/CSS3.

I know, I know, "HTML5 doesn't have the timeline/animation controls of flash", ok, fine, but is flash used this way any more? Seems like most 'flash' I see is just a container for H.264 video.










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