http://www.infoworld.com/t/rich-internet-application-development-tools/stop-bashing-flash-496
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:03 PM, filip sound <[email protected]> wrote: > html5 is in no way comparable to flash. the sourcecode of html5 is open to > anyone who load the page, Javascript is comparable to ActionScript 1 while > flash is at AS3. the speed is low and it also crashes the safari browser on > iPad. just in case you read Steve Jobs letter about flash - half of it is > simply not true. > > when html5 is as powerful as flash, it automatically will have the same > disadvantages as flash has today. > > so don't believe the nonsense some crazy people are spreading these days. > it's just a hype started/supported by apple (= steve jobs). > > flash is available for android and many other platforms. > > do you want everyone to be able to look into the sourcecode of your > projects?? > i know that flash can be disassembled too but it's not as easy as firefox > -> webdev-toolbar -> view generated source code. > > have you tried converting a complex graphic to svg and view it in any > browser? safari on ipad and firefox is slow in rendering those but as swf > its fast. > > the market is not moving towards html5. no current browser except safari is > supporting html5. > > now please tell me that it is all wrong, > filip > > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Martin Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I imagine that as ourselves, many people has taken advantage of this great >> swftools package to transform documents in several formats to SWF and >> display them in flash-based viewers. >> >> It looks like though that market is moving towards HTML5 and many players >> are moving their flash based viewers from flash to this standard. So a few >> questions arise with regards to swftools and custom viewers. So, is there >> any plans to provide tools to move from flash to html5? Some kind of >> swftohtml5. Any plans to an html5 basic viewer? Or alternatively, what would >> be the necessary steps to move our documents converted with swftools to >> html5. Perhaps transforming them to svg and using an SWF viewer? >> >> Quite a few questions :) >> >> Best, >> Martin >> >> >
