Apple vs Flash
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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. Wired has gotten some choice quotes from an internal "Town Hall" meeting at Apple's headquarters, and it sounds like CEO Steve Jobs is banking on HTML5 supplanting Flash as the de facto standard for web video.
Steve Jobs bets on HTML5
HTML5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web , and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software . [ 1 ] It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997) [ 2 ] and as of April 2012 [update] is still under development.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.
Steve Jobs wants to kill Adobe Flash
It's no secret that Steve Jobs is no fan of Adobe Flash -- Jobs basically kneecapped Flash development tools with iPhone OS 4.0 .
Steve Jobs Skewers Adobe in "Open Letter"
Steve Jobs tells the world just what he thinks of Flash
Once upon a time there were two little boys, Apple and Adobe .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.
How many sites use Flash? > News > Flash Magazine
Scripting 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.
MAMA: Key findings - Opera Developer Community
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 .2 Joe Hewitt's quote reacting to Steve Jobs 's open letter by Apr 30
"Why are app stores threatening the web and luring developers like me away from it? Evil proprietary tech is blowing the web away." by Apr 30
- "Browser makers need to go nuts with non-standard APIs and let the W3C standardize later. Waiting for the committee to innovate is suicide" by Apr 30
Apple vs Flash