https://www.jbsystemsllc.com/blog/what-no-animation/ Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:38:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://www.jbsystemsllc.com/blog/what-no-animation/#comment-1691 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:51:31 +0000 http://jbsystemsllc.com/blog/?p=314#comment-1691 Jerry,
Did you notice the h264 which has patents on it is only supported in Safari (MAC and windows), Chrome, and the forth coming IE9.
Did you see that IE9 will not support XP? Microsoft can change their mind between now and final release but since it is tied into some of the API’s that are only on Vista and 7 they most likely not change. Considering that XP still is almost 60% of the market that is a large group of people to throw away.
The final point is your are saying (and so is Steve) flash = movies. I don’t think that is true. Flash is much more than a movie player it is also a statefull machine something the web and browser were engineered not to be for a specific reason. Yes you can hack away to make the browser into a statefull system. Many of the JS libraries do just that and in many cases making a browser a simple statefull machine will enhance your browser experience. Making the browser into a rich statefull machine will in many cases downgrade the browser experience and become a management nightmare for extension.
I agree that flash is used for many things that could be done better in HTML 5 or using other technologies. The problem is the HTML 5 is not a standard (and per W3C it will not be for years), if you start writing to all the features that are in HTML 5 we are going to be back to the customization of all our web pages where we sniff the browser and put out different pages.

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