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SlideShare Ditches Flash, Rebuilds Site In HTML5

Posted by Soulskill on from the writing-on-the-wall dept.

Frankie70 writes "SlideShare has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language. This means that SlideShare is now viewable on every kind of mobile device, from iPads to iPhones to Android devices and beyond."

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  1. Questions by ledow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Who the hell are SlideShare?

    2) Why would I care?

    3) What makes it frontpage material for nerds?

    1. Re:Questions by jedidiah · · Score: 2, Insightful

      There is also the issue of content. Just because you use HTML5, it doesn't mean that all devices will magically be able to use your site. The video you are pushing still needs to be something that the clients can decode. This just avoids the "Steve won't let iPhones run Flash" problem.

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    2. Re:Questions by samael · · Score: 5, Informative

      1) They host slide decks from presentations. I seem them being used by a wide variety of people, including lots of tech presentations.
      2) Do you care about presentations, or HTML 5? If not, you wouldn't.
      3) Because lots of us nerds care about HTML 5 and technical presentations.

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    3. Re:Questions by Pieroxy · · Score: 3, Informative

      And we hate flash and it's good to see these moves away from proprietary tech to open standards. The web is back.

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    4. Re:Questions by dreamingwell · · Score: 2

      You're correct. There's actually no HTML 5 in the new SlideShare site. It's just HTML 4 and Javascript. They are simply using the HTML 5 badge for marketing purposes.

    5. Re:Questions by Pieroxy · · Score: 2

      Why would you say Steve lost? Users lost with a game that consumes 200% more CPU than it would need because the developer was too lazy to code it in the native language. I guess sometimes Good Enough is good enough.

      And this crappy game is nowhere near "the number 1 paid app on the ipad" as you put it. It was the top app for 3 days in a row and it is probably already fading into oblivion.

      I know you're just a troll, but I still want to set the record straight.

      As for user agent sniffing, if you think that was the good old days, you've been living in a cave for the last 5 years.

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    6. Re:Questions by Desler · · Score: 2

      Except the site still requires flash and d.oesn't use html5

    7. Re:Questions by Compaqt · · Score: 2

      OK, yeah, it's a slashvertisement.

      But I'm not affiliated with Slideshare, and it's handy to be notified of this news.

      I've sort of put up with Slideshare because so many tech presentations (re: Drupal, PHP, and a bunch of other things) are on Slideshare.

      The fact that they're HTML5 now gives me reason to explore it further.

      Regarding Prezi, I don't know how it's the leader in this category. Slideshare's Alexa rank is an order of magnitude better than Prezi's, so more people are using Slideshare.

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  2. More interesting question... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 2

    What are the downsides or issues involved in building a general purpose html5 website today, for public consumption?

    I'm not talking about a site which will use the canvas tag etc but something that should work fine on older browsers - how do older browsers react to doctypes developed after the browser was created?

    I was looking at doing this for an upcoming project, specifically to use data annotations on tags (if you look at Facebook, they use non-standard data annotations on tags) but haven't come to a decision yet, as it hinges on what older browsers do.

  3. Slidewho? by Viol8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wake me up when youtube ditches Flash.

  4. Re:And what? by Hadlock · · Score: 2

    Youtube has had desktop HTML5 support (i.e. replaces flash) for at least a year, probably closer to two at this point. I've been using it for that period because my old N470 atom netbook (linux) struggles with full screen flash video, but runs HTML5 video acceptably in chrome. You can enable it somewhere deep inside the ever-changing youtube interface.

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  5. Can't hardly wait till... by wjcofkc · · Score: 2

    I can post "Ding Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? The proprietary cpu eating battery draining witch!"
    Sooner or later anyway...

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  6. Re:Really? by Flipao · · Score: 2

    What the fuck does anyone care about the standard?.

    Pretty much stopped reading there, IE6 was developed by people who didn't give a fuck about standards and it set the web back at least half a decade. I'll leave you to figure out why they're necessary.