iPhone vs Flash
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ukit, what does long term commitment mean?
Google has integrated Flash into Chrome.. does that not say long term commitment to Flash too? Microsoft is still pushing Silverlight..thus by doing that they are pushing Flash too as it is a plugin as well. They even have Silverlight framework for Windows Phone 7 and support for Flash coming too.
HTML5 is the future of HTML.. there's no question about that.. It's fantastic that we will be able to do things much easier in HTML5 than we could have previously or had to use Flash for some of those things. But it's silly to say that JS (which is by itself a very inefficient scripting language) and HTML5 will replace everything. Canvas is simple, it just makes some of those things we had to use Flash for possible, but it's far from replacing Flash by any stretch of the imagination.
In a few years when we have great tools and all browsers support all features of HTML5, it will be great, but even then we definitely won't have the ability to do many things that Flash will.
Anyone else who claims we will is either overly optimistic or has some kind of agenda. It's enough to see what Flash Interactive Media Server 4 is offering us now and it's clear that it's a loooong way before we get something like that with HTML5 video, if ever.
Btw, the faster the mobile devices are, which is going on right now, the more AIR apps you will have on mobile.
We developed using HTML/JS/CSS alongside Flash for so long, and that's not going to change with HTML5 as well.
- Silverlight is part of WPF and thus IS the interface to all windows products from now on.zarkonite