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HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight
snydeq writes "While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the potential to eat these vendors' lunches, offering Web experiences based on an industry standard. In fact, one expressed goal of the standard is to move the Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX. 'It would be a terrible step backward if humanity's major development platform [the Web] was controlled by a single vendor the way that previous platforms such as Windows have been,' says HTML 5 co-editor Ian Hickson, a Google employee. But whether HTML 5 and its Canvas technology will displace proprietary plug-ins 'really depends on what developers do,' says Firefox technical lead Vlad Vukicevic. It also depends on Microsoft, the only company involved in the HTML 5 effort that is both a browser developer and an RIA tool developer. 'That's a big elephant in the room for them because you can imagine the Silverlight team [whose] whole existence is to add [this] functionality in. [But] if Internet Explorer puts it already in there, why do we have Silverlight?' asks Mozilla's Dion Almaer." The RIA guys are quoted as saying they're not worried, because HTML 5 + CSS 3 is 10 years out. Are they just whistling in the dark?
What's RIA? Is it like the RIAA but without the A at the end? What's next then, MPA? BS?
What is Popfly?
A guaranteed out?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
You get a C+. Your comment is insightful and original, at that. You have a clear title indicating the content to be found within and you have neither spelling mistakes nor grammatical errors. What's more, by refusing to make a categorical statement, you are promoting discussion. It is clear that your comment is an opportunity for others, perhaps more experience in the field, to chime in. So why the C+?
You should know better than to start a new thread this far down. Find some random troll up at the top of the page and respond to it. I DON'T CARE IF IT'S GOATSE! Within minutes, others will be vigorously arguing the importance of search up above. They will be the ones scoring karma and street cred. You, my friend, have missed out on your big chance. The cars, the girls, the glamor. I'm afraid history will remember you thusly: an also ran. The internet is a vicious place, Mr. caywen. C+.
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
my high school counselors (not to mention my family and their friends) thought I would never amount to anything.
I believe in you
Not for the Mets...
I don't expect morality, equality, consistency, or justice from the law. I expect only legality.
Frontpage and Expression Web isn't WYSIWYG, it's WYSIWTF.
Visual Studio for other uses (C++/C#) is kind of neat though.
it's a good job you specified "AD" as I may have been confused by the ambiguity and perhaps thought that internet explorer 6 was first released in the middle of the fucking bronze age
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