3D: Flash vs HTML5
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- Boz0
and btw, that same community you are harping about has had last 15 years to make something out JS and crap and they did nothing. The pinnacle of web design and development was DHTML with flying cursors until Yahoo created JQuery. So great, it takes 15 years to make something work even remotely decent.
All of your assumption are based on several almost impossible scenarios:
1. That all browser developers will somehow unite to make sure WebGL, HTML5 works the same. Which it absolutely won't. They are in hardcore competition with each other and it's matter of time when they'll start adding shit to make themselves more "advanced". We have already seen what's happening with video.
2. WebGL is not even in the HTML5 final specification, and neither is canvas 3D.. So it's a flying target and everybody can use it however they think is best.
3. There are no tools. The reason why Flash became ubiquitous and much more compatible and independent from HTML/JS/CSS on any browser is because we had tools for both designers and developers. Not a single tool exists that will allow you build content and interactive stuff that comes close to Flash.
4. Flash runs ok now and will run identically on any browser, any platform by being independent from the browsers and all the shit that HTML5/WebGL will suffer from.
5. And lastly security.. WebGL has had this security critical flaw since last year and nobody is fucking fixing it. That's the problem with open standards.. There's no one responsible to fix that shit. I've already posted a security issue that is just now coming to light but has been present fro a while now and is very hard to fix.
It would be beautiful if we could have the same capabilities and options as Flash, great tools fro WebGL and every browser would work and render shit the same way and we just concentrate on creative beautiful things that run without any plugins everywhere, instead of running around and finding 5 different frameworks to workaround browser incompatibilities.
But this is a pipe dream. A delusion by those who have a hard on for HTML5 as if it's going to replace Flash..
Understand this.. Flash and AIR and Molehill is not going anywhere and being built and improved by one company is making it superior in many ways over the open standards because it can evolve faster and be independent while being massively ubiquitous.