Swiffy: swf to html5
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" IT took 15 years for JS to get JQuery.. it will take another 15 years for all these standards and frameworks and all the shit to even work on all browsers."
Typical hyperbolic statement from Boz on this subject. It didn't "take" 15 years for jQuery to be invented, like they were slaving away for 15 years trying to come up with it. No one was looking to invent jQuery, an independent developer just happened to come up with this new way of writing JS for web apps, at a time when browsers could begin to handle better JS performance.
But in some ways this does get to the heart of the issue. Do you want animation and interactivity on the web controlled by a single corporation, and limited to their development schedule, or do you want it to be driven by open standards, competition between browser makers and the efforts of independent developers the way JS and jQuery has been?
That's why complaining that HTML5 can't do x as well as Flash is such a short-sighted view. Ultimately it's about choosing one model of development over another. Companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are well aware of cross browser issues but they will press ahead with HTML5 because they recognize it's a much more empowering path for them than being reliant on Adobe technology.
- +1 well said in the last paragraphanimatedgif
- Only Apple is the only one of those companies not pressing forward with Flash as well as HTML5.CyBrainX