“At this weekend’s JSConf event in Washington DC, a variety of new JavaScript-related tools were demonstrated, providing new competition to the incumbent Adobe Flash in the area of creating rich web apps, but entirely within HTML5 without needing a proprietary browser plugin,” Dilger reports.
“JavaScript frameworks like SproutCore are used to ease the development of full blown web apps,” Dilger reports. “Unlike Adobe’s Flash, which is often used just to add interactive animations, videos or advertisements to a web page, SproutCore is intended to create rich Internet applications based entirely upon web standards, with no need for an external plugin architecture.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Note to advertisers: (including those who advertise via third-party ad networks and become, in effect, our advertisers): Your Flash-based ads are no longer reaching the most well-heeled customers online: 50+ million iPhone owners. They’re also not hitting brand new iPad users or 35+ million iPod touch users. If you care about reaching people with discretionary income, you might want to consider dumping your flash-based ads and moving to a more open format that people with money and the will to spend it can actually see.
Help kill Adobe’s Flash:
• Ask MarketWatch to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Ask CNBC to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Contact Hulu and ask them to offer HTML5 video via email:
• Ask ESPN360 to offer HTML5 video instead Flash via their feedback page here.
• Join YouTube’s HTML5 beta here.
• On Vimeo, click the “Switch to HTML5 player” link below any video.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
who cares about CNBC.
however,
entertainment: youtube, hulu, vimeo
newspapers: NYT, Chicago papers, LAT, etc
sports: espn, si.com, nfl, nba, mlb, nhl, ncaa
ADOBE’s only around because of Photoshop. I think Macromedia was superior in some ways web dev/drawing/obviously media (flash)… but ADBE buys them out…
but the deathblow for flash would definitely be: Youtube, hulu, espn, major sports sites…
Uh. Do you like PDF’s? I prefer Adobe Lightroom over aperture.
Aftereffects is a great app. There are tons of sites built off of Cold Fusion as well.
My kids love the Flash game sites that nearly 100% of children sites utilize.
Saying Photoshop is the only reason is bogus. And I am willing to guess that those saying it have pirated copies of it as well.
I like pdf’s. Apple’s preview ’em just fine, thanks. Apple’s display technology in OS X, iirc, is built on pdf. Fortunately, it was released as an open standard in 2008, so you no longer need Adobe.
Personally, I would like to see a flash on the next iPhone.
Im sure we would all love to see a flash, but is this the time or place?
Anybody can make PDFs. It’s an open spec.
Dear MDN,
As an addendum to your plea to advertisers, I would also include all of us who have installed ClickToFlash, use Camino’s Flash block feature, or installed Firefox’s Flashblock plugin as missed opportunities.
I have installed the above not to avoid ads but to cut down on web browser instability caused by Flash. As a result, no more browser crashes.
@spy
I don’t want flash, I am part of all. Apple is wise to not be held captive to 3rd party plug ins. I don’t mill flash at all. Of course I don’t do porn so well you know.
mill flash? I meant MISS Damn iPhone keyboard and my big fingers
Great news about SproutCore.
I’m amazed that there are still people out there that defend Flash. It reminds me of the folks who blindly defend IE.
IT’S 2010, we can move on now from Flash, Silverlight, et al. to a plug-in free web!!!
Yes, yes, yes!!!
I was waiting for that update. Woohoo!
Had a look at sproutcore…
Seriously. JQueiryUI is better
@bon
“I’m amazed that there are still people out there that defend Flash”.
Well lets see. How about the virtual tour industry for example? 360 Virtual tours have three ways to work.
1) Through QTVR. Trouble is the functionality is very limited and the end user has to have Quicktime installed for it to work.
2) Through a Java applet. Again limited and full screen option is very memory intensive.
3) Using Flash with a web based plug-in like flashpanoramas.com’s great software. This offers you a ton of functionality enabled and configured via XML files that talk to the flash plug-in and ordinary images that are loaded in at runtime.
So if you want to totally kill Flash without destroying the virtual tour industry then you need to get a well supported HTML5/Open-GL software version built, tested and full of functionality for the virtual tour industry to move over to..
Don’t get me wrong. I dislike websites entirely built in Flash. But the Flash plug-in itself is needed for my industry and until an alternative is created we have no choice other than to use Flash to present virtual tours as nothing else is functionally good enough right now.
Far be it for me to defend anything Micro$oft but let’s not heap SilverLight in the same pile as that steaming POS known as Flash. As rarely as i may have had occasion to use it, SilverLight has NEVER crashed any of my macs–nor has it taken my whole browser hostage like partially-loaded &/or hung Flash files.
Flash is such an embarrassment that even M$ has made a better piece of software. It’s unfortunate that Flash has become as pervasive w/ developers as it has–in most cases when someone decides to use Flash it’s because their site has no other substance or game. Like the PowerPoint of the internets–keepd the attention away from how poor the speaker is..
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NetFlix uses Silverlight
Simple CSS and JavaScript can be used for 360 degree tours. It’s like 2004 when there people sincerely saying they needed IE’s goofy code forks because their industry website depended on custom colored scroll bars.
You’re drinking the Adobe koolaid.
lol! It’s funny to watch all the whole tiny mac fan army defending dumb moves apple makes. I don’t know where all you people came from and if you know these simple facts:
html5 – not a standard, not released, not supported by most browsers, no way flash will get killed, doesn’t matter what you do tada-a-a-a!
JavaScript is available to substitute flash animation NOW and has been for a long time, but hardly anyone uses it to create anything more than simple effects like menus, why? Because it SUX and will kill you when it comes to troubleshooting and making it compatible across all browsers, now way that will kill flash, tada-a-a-a!
video- alpha chanel? Custom closed captioning? Interactivity that DEPENDS on the video position? I got news for you, this is flash ONLY, tada-aaa!
Apple abandoned it’s ways many times, so I would recommend you to be cautious when you start going crazy praising Apple’s wisdom and don’t forget internationally apple is tiny and has almost NO IMPACT, in other words no one but you cares about what apple has in mind.
Being free from 3d party plugins? are you kidding me you have to practically surrender your soul if you get into Apple’s products, they own you and your wallet 100% (unless off course you start hacking things and use 3-d party plugins), apple itself is like a giant 3-d party parasite you cannot do anything about except to move on to other devices. Good-luck flash haters, welcome Android and opened thinking!
great post mate! thanks for this nice inforamtion, i have always working on a flash………this is no doubts that flash is always workful for developers….keep posting useful information
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Help kill Adobe’s Flash eh:
Just a quick note to let you know i’ve emailed all the companies you link to and informed them of your campaign.
This should help to nullify your laughable efforts.
Apple has less than 3 percent worldwide desktop market share and Flash has 98 percent market penetration.
I realize that you’ve invested into a brand so much that self-deception is easier than objective decision making but that’s no excuse. Get a grip!!!!!