[access-uk] Re: html5 v flash

  • From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:44:12 +0100

Where would one use HTML 5. Do you mean it is for a mobile phone or a computer?
Eleanor
-original message-
Subject: [access-uk] Re: html5 v flash
From: kieran.little667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 24/07/2010 12:24 pm

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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