Html 5 Should Kill Flash and Silverlight

A great article has appeared about how HTML 5 really should finally kill off the proprietary Flash and Silverlight browser add-ons.

HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX

All this focus on Flex/Flash and Silverlight is really beside the point in my opinion. Sure maybe today, we have to rely on these proprietary browser plugins to deliver content to users, but the real innovative developers and companies are going to standard on HTML 5 and in turn revolutionize how users interact with data. We all want faster web applications and the only way to deliver this is to use HTML 5. Of course some companies can’t get their act together to support it (I’m looking at you Microsoft), but given how positive people have been toward the Google Chrome browser and how it works with their web applications, I think we are really very close to a revolution here. The question we need to ask ourselves is to you want to be in the front, or the rear of change?

MechaHTML5 pushes proprietary browser add-ons to the side.

MechaHTML5 pushes proprietary browser add-ons to the side.MechaHTML5 pushes proprietary browser add-ons to the side.

HT: DF


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June 16, 2009