[access-uk] Re: html5 v flash
- From: kieran.little667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:24:07 +0100
Many devices support flash, but i think html5 is the way to go.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Keen <gordonkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:31:59 +0100
Subject: [access-uk] html5 v flash
Perhaps flash might not be so pervasive in the future?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jul/23/html5-flash
-ads-quiz
I can't believe it's not Flash! Can you tell which ads are in
HTML5?
Make the HTML5 ads go away! Photo by Seeds_of_Peace on Flickr.
Some rights reserved
Cover your eyes, AdBlock users: the future of the web is here,
and it includes adverts.
Unless of course you reckon that Adobe's Flash is always going to
reign supreme when it comes to creating animated content online,
so that the combination of HTML5 and CSS3 will just never become
important, or that browsers capable of displaying HTML5/CSS3
content won't become pervasive enough for it to matter.
But if you don't... over at sencha.com, you can now - assuming
you're using a sufficiently modern browser - take a quiz: see if
you can spot which one of the pairs of ads is done in Flash, and
which is done in HTML5/CSS3. (We're not hosting them here
because (a) that would be rude (b) it would be a huge hassle
getting the path to the CSS files right. Off you go and take the
quiz.)
Obviously, this is quite easy to figure out if you have a Flash
blocker installed (or are on a platform that doesn't provide
Flash - hello pretty much everyone on mobile), or if you have a
browser that's not capable of displaying HTML5. But if you view
it on Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera, you may find it tough to
call.
This is encouraging, or scary, depending on your viewpoint: if
designers can do things with HTML5/CSS3 that they used to need
Flash for, then blocking out the messages (which has been a topic
of heated debate from time to time) that help to pay for some ads
become much more difficult - because it's all just HTML. (Though
perhaps you then start to have "CSS-blocking" parsers which will
watch for things such as ":hover" and "-animation-duration" in
the CSS file - see for example the content of
http://www.sencha.com/deploy/css3-ads/hertz/style.css, used for
the Hertz ad recreation.
The details, if you're interested, of how to do the recreations
are on another Sencha blogpost. Would-be HTML5 designers, take
note.
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