Steve Jobs bets on HTML5. By Cyril Kowaliski — 4:49 PM on February 1, 2010 The evidence seems clear at this point: much like the iPhone and iPod touch, the Apple iPad will lack support for Adobe's Flash technology.
Don't expect that situation to change anytime soon, either. HTML5. HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML 4 as of 1997)[2] and, as of December 2012[update], is a candidate recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[3] Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers, etc.).
HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but also XHTML 1 and DOM Level 2 HTML.[2] History[edit] The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) began work on the new standard in 2004. At that time, HTML 4.01 had not been updated since 2000,[8] and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was focusing future developments on XHTML 2.0. While HTML5 is often compared to Flash, the two technologies are very different. Steve Jobs wants to kill Adobe Flash.
Steve Jobs wants to kill Adobe Flash Apple hopes that the iPad will hope to drive HTML5 adoption Adobe is quite worried about the rise of HTML5 Flash, for better or worse, is a big part of the web experience in the desktop and notebook market.
Adobe Flash has an estimated 98 percent penetration in the PC market and websites use Flash for everything from ads to video to games. Some websites, like Nike.com, are built almost entirely around Flash. Adobe is fighting to extend its reach into the mobile market thanks to Flash Mobile 10.1. With mobile devices like smartphones exploding in sales and becoming an increasingly important part of our lives, Adobe is sensitive to anything that could possibly threaten its position in this marketplace. Steve Jobs Skewers Adobe in "Open Letter" Steve Jobs has had enough of Adobe Flash and wants the world to move on and embrace HTML5 It's no secret that Steve Jobs is no fan of Adobe Flash -- Jobs basically kneecapped Flash development tools with iPhone OS 4.0.
In addition, Jobs has long said that Flash on Mac computers is slow, buggy, and an incredible resource hog. We all thought that the relationship between Apple and Adobe was beginning to thaw a bit when Apple announced that it would make hardware acceleration APIs available to developers like Adobe. That lead the way for yesterday's announcement of Flash Player 10.1 "Gala" for OS X which provides hardware acceleration of H.264 video content on Macs with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M, or GeForce GT 330M GPUs.
But that isn't quite the end of the story. Steve Jobs tells the world just what he thinks of Flash. Once upon a time there were two little boys, Apple and Adobe.
Back when they were kids, they used to hang out, play kick-the-can, and generally lived in harmony. But one day Apple got sick and Adobe met some new kids and the two drifted apart. Now that they’re all grown up, Apple wouldn’t spare Adobe the steam of his coffee and their interests, though not divergent, are no longer really friendly. Think of it as A Separate Peace but with multi-national conglomerates. How many sites use Flash? We all know that Flash is installed on about 98% of all browsers, but how many web pages use Flash?
Surveying more than 3.5 million pages, the Opera (browser) developer center found that somewhere between 30% and 40% of all pages tested contained Flash files. The survey also features fun statistics such as AJAX usage, the least popular HTML and CSS tags and the number of pages that validate. MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) is Opera's structural search engine. Whereas normal search engines return results about the content of pages, MAMA returns results about site structure, including what doctype the page uses, whether it validates, what HTML elements and CSS properties it uses, what plugins, what scriping constructs, and much more.
The survey is a goldmine for web develpers in general, but also for Flash developers. One of the most facinating things to note for Flash developers is that AJAX isn't all that widely used. Comments No comments for this page. Submit a comment. MAMA: Key findings - Opera Developer Community. By Brian Wilson Index: Introduction This article provides some of MAMA's most interesting findings, to offer a quick glimpse of what MAMA is capable of and to whet the reader's appetite for the more intricate results found in the rest of the study.
In this study, MAMA examined 3,509,180 URLs in 3,011,668 domains. More details about MAMA's URL set and how it was selected are available in another document. Web servers used The eternal tug-of-war continues between the two biggest Web server giants, Apache and Microsoft's IIS. Apache: 50.76% IIS: 35.84% The balance between these Web servers as represented in MAMA is skewed more in favor of Apache: Apache: 2,011,088 domains (67.72%) IIS: 769,375 domains (25.91%)
The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Ma. There are few people who know the ins and outs of the web as well as Joe Hewitt.
For the past decade, he’s had his hands deep in everything from Netscape, to AOL, to Firefox, to Facebook (where he currently works). Hewitt also knows a thing or two about the iPhone. He’s the one who first built Facebook’s excellent iPhone web app (before there were native apps on the iPhone), and then the native app — which is one of the best apps on the platform. So when he rants about something (as he does from time-to-time), people listen. And today he went on one such rant. Apple vs Flash.