Steve Jobs was right. Adobe has finally realized what a dog Flash is for mobile devices.
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations. [...]
HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.
Kudos to Adobe for choosing the HTML5 path.
Posted: November 9th, 2011
Filed under: Apple, Development, Mobile Tags: adobe, flash, html5, steve jobs | No Comments »
Hype is a Mac app for creating keyframe-based animations using standard HTML5, CSS3 styles and JavaScript. The product probably needs to mature a bit but it could replace Flash for some basic web animations right out of the box.
There’s a nice gallery of projects created with Hype, tutorials for getting started and a very impressive documentation page. Available now at the Mac App Store for $30.
Posted: May 20th, 2011
Filed under: Development, Innovation, Software Tags: css, html5, javascript | No Comments »
The outlook just got a lot rosier for the adoption of HTML5.
MPEG LA has announced that the h.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) video coding standard will remain royalty-free forever, as long as video encoded with the standard is free to end users. This means sites like YouTube and Vimeo will never be charged licensing fees to serve video on the web. It also means that a huge hurdle has been removed for companies who had concerns about moving away from Flash video to HTML5 and the h.264 video standard.
Up to now MPEG LA’s position on licensing had been that h.264 would be royalty-free through 2015; after that, who knows. So prior to today’s news it was possible that licensing fees would kick in within a few years, and it’s difficult to promote a standard with that kind of uncertainty around a key technology. The uncertainty is now gone.
I think HTML5 will be good for the web and mobility, so I’m glad to see this decision.
Link to MPEG LA’s News Release (PDF)
Posted: August 26th, 2010
Filed under: Competition, Video Tags: html5, vimeo | No Comments »
