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Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash?

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Re:See, this is what I've been saying on Slashdot by beelsebob · · Score: 0, Troll

    PCMCIA

    In it's latest incarnation (express card), you can still get it on apple laptops

    replaceable batteries

    Great example of apple dumping useless crap like batteries you can replace every day. If your battery lasts 10 hours, you have no need to replace it in a day, in the same way as you have no need to replace hard disks every day... Or do you complain that you can't remove your hard disk without undoing a few screws?

    full size connectors

    You mean like MiniDisplay Port, that has now pretty much become the standard display port connector?

  2. Re:Apple showed by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Troll

    People that are incredibly stupid often say that, but they are always wrong.

    Above all it has to work well.