HTML5 has become something of a buzzword over the past months. Browser makers have been competing to have the best support, and even Microsoft, typically lagging behind in standards implementation, has gotten on board with IE9, which brings support for various features of HTML5. Though flash is nowhere close to being displaced as the dominant web technology for rich content, there are more and more situations in which HTML will do the same thing, better. An example of this is the video tag. It can play both video and audio perfectly well on any modern browser, without the need for resource-consuming flash that doesn't work on most mobile platforms.
Another thing that is now possible in HTML due the the canvas tag are games. There are now sites hosting exclusively games coded in HTML, such as this one. In the past, practically every casual gaming site hosted flash games. Now there is a new breed of sites hosting html5 games, many of which work on mobile devices. To me, this is the way of the future. No more plugins, just pure HTML powering beautiful things.
Hmz didn't know about that.. sounds good
ReplyDeleteInteresting stuff. I wonder how they will be able to compete now.
ReplyDeleteMore info is required on my part, though I'll be checking out that site you linked.
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting, i've always heard there were problems with flash.
ReplyDeleteyes i need to research more of html5 to get abetter glimpse of what youre talking about. But this kind of progress seems good on the surface
ReplyDeleteFound html5 civ! Thx!
ReplyDeleteDoes seem a promising technology for the future.
ReplyDeleteInteresting read, I wonder though how the PC will handle these, is this resource intense?
ReplyDeleteI love html5, hopefully flash will become obsolete soon.
ReplyDeletewell im just gettin into HTML, this just makes me want to learn more of it
ReplyDeletei do myself some experimenting with the canvas
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