Adobe Flash vs. HTML5. You know a technology's future doesn't look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. In August, Adobe surprised the Web development community by releasing a preview of software for building rich Internet applications (RIA), called Edge. Edge was surprising in that it uses a newly emerging set of Web markup and programming standards clustered around the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML5 standard, including HTML5 itself, and also CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), the Canvas tag, and the JavaScript programming language. "We think our customers are going to be able to take advantage of Web standards in some cases where before the only option would have been to use Flash," admitted Arno Gourdol, director of engineering for Adobe Flash.
NETWORK WORLD's 31 HOTTEST TECH ARGUMENTS: Read them all BACKGROUND: 4 things you need to know about Adobe Edge Certainly an increasing number of Internet giants are thinking this is the case. Native apps could be temporary option until HTML5 improves, panel says. SAN FRANCISCO -- After Apple made changes to its in-app purchase policy for mobile apps earlier this year, there was a huge uproar. But really, that might have just been the tip of the iceberg in a debate over what's better: native apps or those built for the browser in HTML5.
Some digital news publishers think that the reign of native apps could be shortened considerably as HTML5 gains fans. See also: ZTE's CEO: Windows smartphones set for comeback next yearMagazine publishers divided over giving digital issues for free "We've used HTML5 to step out of iTunes and back into the browser environment," said Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com, at the Open Mobile Summit on Thursday. Grimshaw described that when the Financial Times decided to go the HTML5 route, it was "something of a gamble" as "no one else has really been out there in this territory. " "It opens up a whole new world," Grimsaw posited. However, don't expect the same from The New York Times just yet. Related: Juegos en Flash vs. HTML5 ¿Quién ganará esta batalla? Internet y el mundo de la tecnología en general está lleno de épicas batallas: entre navegadores (Firefox vs.
Chrome vs. Internet Explorer vs. Opera vs. Safari), entre sistemas operativos de escritorio (Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac), móviles (Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone), entre redes sociales (Facebook vs. Hasta hace poco Flash no tenía oposición, pero ahora mismo, no solo tiene oponentes muy fuertes sino que además encontró en HTML5 un duro rival, que poco a poco, a medida en que los principales navegadores soportan más de sus funcionalidades, le va restando terreno y lo amenaza con arrebatar su corona.
A pesar de que muchos juegos están desarrollados en Flash, varios de los más populares del momento, como es el caso de Angry Birds, tienen también versiones en HTML5, que nada tienen que envidiar a su contra parte, y grandes como Zynga, principal socio de Facebook, ha desarrollado versiones HTML5 de tres de sus juegos más importantes. Datos: OneMoreLevel. Empowering the Developer Community. Adobe lays out the future for Flash: a platform for the next 5-10 years. Adobe has published its roadmap for its Flash browser plugin and its AIR desktop application counterpart.
More releases, more features, and more performance, are all planned, but on fewer platforms: Adobe is giving up entirely on supporting smartphone browsers, sticking to the core desktop platforms for its plugin—and with a big question mark when it comes to Windows 8. The company sees Flash as having two main markets that will resist the onslaught of HTML5: game development, and premium (read: encrypted) video.
To that end, the features it has planned for future updates focus on making Flash faster, with greater hardware acceleration and improved script performance, and more application-like, with keyboard input in full-screen applications, and support for middle- and right-mouse buttons. Three releases are planned this year. Version 11.2, due this quarter, will incorporate the mouse improvements, greater hardware acceleration, and multithreaded video decoding. Adobe lays out the future for Flash: a platform for the next 5-10 years. Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5 (Adobe Featured Blogs)
Adobe is all about enabling designers and developers to create the most expressive content possible, regardless of platform or technology. For more than a decade, Flash has enabled the richest content to be created and deployed on the web by reaching beyond what browsers could do. It has repeatedly served as a blueprint for standardizing new technologies in HTML. Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of the web to many mobile devices. However, HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. We are excited about this, and will continue our work with key players in the HTML community, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and RIM, to drive HTML5 innovation they can use to advance their mobile browsers. We are super excited about the next generations of HTML5 and Flash.