The plot against Adobe Flash thickens...

[Msterbeau]

http://www.macworld.com/article/150960/2010/04/microsoft_flash_html5.html?lsrc=rss_main

"Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s General Manager of Internet Explorer, cut to the chase rather quickly, by stating “the future of the Web is HTML5.” He also said that Microsoft has been “deeply engaged” in the HTML5 process with the W3C, the standards body that drafts the specifications for how HTML5 should work. The company’s Internet Explorer 9, now in beta for Windows users, features HTML5 support. Hachamovitch says that while the W3C does not specify a video format for video embedded in HTML5 sites, Microsoft has joined Apple in supporting H.264, and H.264 alone."

Hmm... It will be interesting to see how web standards will allow things like web ads or image galleries that currently use Flash. The gallery thing is important to me because it allows me to make it more difficult to take content from my web site galleries. (Note I said "more difficult", not "impossible".)

[n0Mad]

Well, YouTube videos use Flash so as soon as Google enters the fight, this will get interesting.

[Msterbeau]

Well, YouTube videos use Flash so as soon as Google enters the fight, this will get interesting.

YouTube is quickly converting it's videos to H.264. So are a lot of other major content providers. A lot of this is being attributed to the iPad. But that's video, which is only one of the many things Flash is used for.

It's already getting interesting. :-)

Edited April 30, 2010 by Msterbeau

[killyosaur]

http://www.macworld.com/article/150960/2010/04/microsoft_flash_html5.html?lsrc=rss_main

"Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s General Manager of Internet Explorer, cut to the chase rather quickly, by stating “the future of the Web is HTML5.” He also said that Microsoft has been “deeply engaged” in the HTML5 process with the W3C, the standards body that drafts the specifications for how HTML5 should work. The company’s Internet Explorer 9, now in beta for Windows users, features HTML5 support. Hachamovitch says that while the W3C does not specify a video format for video embedded in HTML5 sites, Microsoft has joined Apple in supporting H.264, and H.264 alone."

Hmm... It will be interesting to see how web standards will allow things like web ads or image galleries that currently use Flash. The gallery thing is important to me because it allows me to make it more difficult to take content from my web site galleries. (Note I said "more difficult", not "impossible".)

Google has been part of the Consortium to build out the HTML5 standard pretty much from the beginning. There is already an HTML5 version of Youtube out there. However, until IE 9 gets out there and gets adopted widely enough, AND everyone, including corporations many of who are STILL on IE6, will we see a possible death of Flash. More than likely Adobe will evolve flash to take advantage of HTML5 and it will some how survive. This will also probably be the case for Silverlight, Microsoft's competing multimedia web solution.

Edited May 1, 2010 by killyosaur