Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash?

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 7, 2010 @02:17AM from the jumping-jack-html5 dept.

The Flash platform has been taking body blows lately. First Apple, then Scribd, publicly abandon it; now ARM's marketing VP is blaming a delay in ARM smartbooks on the continuing unsuitability of Flash for the subnotebook market. But how ready is HTML5 to take over from Flash? Tim Bray offers a cautionary appraisal of the not-yet-a-standard's state of grace. While Flash may be on the way out (or so legions of its detractors hope), it is still important in many corners of the Web. Here a branding expert demonstrates that the sites of 10 out of 10 leading worldwide brands don't display on the iPad — because they're coded in Flash, of course.

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Re:I could care less... by characterZer0 · 2010-05-07 02:43 · Score: 5, Informative

You couldn't care less.

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Re:No, at least by M.+Baranczak · 2010-05-07 03:07 · Score: 3, Informative

And there are still some things that Flash can do but HTML5 can't. Access to the camera and mic, for instance. (Last I checked, JavaFX can't do that either.)
Yeah, I'd like to have a non-proprietary alternative to Flash too, but we're not quite there yet.