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Tim Bray is one of the creators of XML. He is currently a Googler and gets massive respect around the world and tech community. Today he posted his thoughts on HTML5. From the post,
“I am an unabashed partisan of the Web — its architecture, culture, and content. I’m proud to have played a very small part in shaping bits of the machinery and having contributed probably too many words to that content But as for HTML5? It’s a good enough thing to the extent it turns out to work. But nothing terribly important depends on it.”
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GUIMark 2: The rise of HTML5 – Compare HTML5 and Flash performance
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From the post,
“I am very happy to finally announce the release of GUIMark 2. After a couple weeks of building and testing, I feel I’ve finally created the best visual benchmarks I could come up with for comparing both Flash and HTML5. The results reveal a lot of interesting technical differences between the two environments.
Two years ago I had an itch that needed scratching. “RIA” was the future of the web and every major company seemed to have a solution to get us there. I developed the first version of GUIMark to not only get a good understanding of the respective technologies, but also to give my clients through EffectiveUI and everyone else something to actively gauge the rendering performance of the different runtimes. After releasing it I got a good response from both the tech community as well as several platform engineers interested in resolving problems. There were however two serious flaws in the test that immediately stood out. First, the test was relying too heavily on text layout performance. I was barely engaging the the vector and bitmap side of the rendering engines. Secondly, the test was too artificial and developers have a tendency of resisting optimizing apis against unrecognizable test cases.
Fast forward to today and the web is a different beast. Attempt to shine a positive light on a plugin technology and you will be booed off the stage. Create something fun and silly in HTML5 and you’ll have hundreds of thousands of visitors pounding down the front door of your blog to speculate on the death of Flash. It’s undeniable that a new anchor technology is taking root in the web space, and needless to say I’ve got a new itch to scratch.”
Flash has been having quite a bad time lately with regards to HTML5. First Steve Jobs all but calls it a dead technology and refuses to allow it on any mobile Apple device. He argues that Flash is outdated and insecure. Why use Flash when you can use open standards, such as HTML5 he asks? Adobe, the makers of Flash, decided to produce a tool that would port Flash code (actionscript) into an iphone app. This tool was scheduled for release in the next version of Adobe’s Creative Suite CS5.
But recentlly Apple changed their developer agreement to say that apps must be created in Objective C and Cocoa. Nothing can be ported to the Apple platform. That is devistating news for a Flash team taht has been scrambling to react to the HTML5 onslaught. Yesterday the CEO of Adobe said that they “plan to make the best tools in the world for HTML5.”
As part of that we are seeing an Adobe announcment that Flash CS5 will export HTML5 to Canvas! From the post,
“As it turns out, Adobe does have some, albeit rudimentary, HTML5 Canvas exporting tools as demonstrated in the video above. Taking a simple animation, which is the beginning, middle and end of most Flash banner ads that we love, is an export/paste operation.
Now that Microsoft and their market leading IE browser are supporting HTML5, it would seem like a better move for web designers to export old Flash animations into HTML5, rather than miss out on iProducts/ClicktoFlash users’ eyes.”
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Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″
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From the post,
“Adobe’s much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing. Today, most documents (PDFs, Word docs, Powerpoint slides) can mostly be viewed only as boxed off curiosities in a Flash player, not as full Web pages. Tomorrow, online document sharing site Scribd
will start to ditch Flash across its tens of millions of uploaded documents and convert them all to native HTML5 Web pages. Not only will these documents look great on the iPad’s no-Flash browser (see screenshots), but it will bring the richness of fonts and graphics from documents to native Web pages.
Scribd co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman tells me: “We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.”
Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″ (Exclusive Screenshots)
Interesting benchmarks comparing HTML5 and Flash.
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