You want to know the most basic reason I despise Flash? It breaks the back button.
HTML5 isn't going to solve the problem. You cannot just click the "back" button and go to a previous animated screen - it is going to take you to the last web page you visited - the same as if you were using Flash.
HTML5 does not have the capability to access the webcam and the microphone on the desktop. That is a pretty serious problem considering the number of people who use this feature regularly.
The other MAJOR "feature" that Flash has is that it can be installed as a plugin in pretty much *any* browser - so if you are stuck with using IE6 because of some enterprise app which doesn't run on anything else, it will still be possible to install the flash plugin on the browser - that makes Flash far more ubiquitous that HTML5 can ever hope to be in the next 5 years.
I propose a new term - Freedumb Movement. This is to apply to any movement by groups of people who believe they could have greater freedom by having fewer choices - or having someone else make those choices for them.
Steve Jobs is, if not the messiah, at least the great prophet of this freedumb movement.
You make it seem like the muslims are only intolerant of anything remotely resembling criticism if it comes from the western world - that is patently not true. It doesn't matter if you are black, brown, yellow, blue
HTML5 will be CPU-intensive at least for a while before the browsers improve. HTML5 vector graphics will have to go through all the iterations of development and improvement that Flash has already gone through - in a few years, HTML vector graphics will be where Flash is now.
I don't expect HTML5 to crush Flash even for video.
Unless a majority of users move over the HTML5 compatible browsers, it isn't going to work.
Considering how long has IE6 been around despite all of the security vulnerabilities and when you consider that these companies haven't thought these security vulnerabilities as important enough reasons to move their users over to a decent browser, what makes you think that these companies would think the ability to see video on the web being a good enough reason to transfer their users to HTML5 compatible browsers?
If anything, it would discourage employees from using up the bandwidth looking at some random video on the web - all the more reason not to encourage the move to HTML5 browsers.
Now if the Supreme Court would hold the policemen in India responsible for the extra-judicial killings commonly referred to as "encounter" killings..
before there are authoring tools for HTML5 which are on par with Adobe's Flash authoring tools.. and not before HTML5 becomes as ubiquitous as the Flash plugin.
Great. You know what, there are also a lot of amazing demos, presentations, etc, written in ASM for the C-64.
This is the dumbest comment against flash that I have ever heard.
Why don't you point me to a single platform apart from Java applets (which are not supported on iphone) for doing these sorts of interfaces apart from Flash?
To the morons who modded this as a troll, what about this comment is a troll? Everything I have stated is factual. Frigging idiots.
Pray tell, what alternative do you have for flash apps (not video)? HTML5? Show me a single authoring environment for HTML5 which can compare with Adobe's flash authoring environment - I am referring to authoring environment for scripted apps not video.
All this discussion about Flash vs HTML5 seems to miss the point that Flash isn't just video - there are tons of apps and interfaces out there written in Flash - not just slideshows and ads. There are games, presentations, demos etc.
There is not a SINGLE content creation tool for HTML5 which can hold a candle to Adobe's flash authoring environment.
Oxburgh's credibility has already been trashed because of his association with bodies which will gain from all the climate scaremongering. Kerry Emanuel had this to say about CRU even before the inquiry started:
"What we have here," says Kerry Emanuel, are "thousands of emails collectively showing scientists hard at work, trying to figure out the meaning of evidence that confronts them. Among a few messages, there are a few lines showing the human failings of a few scientists" Emanuel believes that "scientifically, it means nothing," because the controversy doesn't challenge the overwhelming evidence supporting anthropogenic warming. He is far more concerned with the well-funded "public relations campaign" to drown out or distort the message of climate science, which he links to "interests where billions, even trillions are at stake..." This "machine has been highly successful in branding climate scientists as a bunch of sandal-wearing, fruit-juice drinking leftist radicals engaged in a massive conspiracy to return us to agrarian society"
This was said during an MIT debate months before the CRU investigation started. So he had already made up his mind about everything to do with CRU even before the investigation.
What is now proved was once only imagin'd. -- William Blake
