There is now a considerable amount of press attention to the new HTML5 standards and concerns about how it will affect video playback as a replacement for Flash and how to enrich Web content. HTML5 is considered more efficient than flash in terms of uploads. The test was inconclusive, but in one area HTML5 seemed to combine the iphone better.
One reason is that it is important to occupy as few traffic as possible in a given application. When the iphone is putting a lot of skills into a small pocket, it's definitely not going to be able to compete with the size of a PC or Mac in the flow and image processing.
The iphone's trend toward HTML5 is well documented on the iphone's new YouTube app. New apps allow iphone users to browse and search for videos and access details of their own accounts, and can perform a lot of video playback without flash** programs.
The report says the CBS network and some other video providers are also developing HTML5 players for their own mass-flow content.
So other iphone app developers are also starting to write HTML5. But some of the already recognized advantages of flash, such as better folders, game engines, and other high-end image processing, are almost impossible to eliminate in the iphone's small screen.
HTML5 brings efficiency and flexibility that can more or less compensate for these advantages of flash. Steve Jobs has strongly supported the use of HTML5 rather than flash on the iphone, and he feels that the slow and problematic flash** program on the iphone is something that the lazy developers of adobe are capable of.
It is also reported that using Flash on the iphone can significantly affect battery life and will shorten the battery life from 10 hours to 1.5 hours. If this is true, flash in a mobile device like the iphone would obviously do a lot of damage to the phone. Jobs, a powerful supporter of HTML5, hinted that HTML5 was a way to use the iphone.
To fight back, Adobe says the upcoming Flash Player version 10.1 will improve the use of mobile phones, and they are now focusing on using Mac OS X. To improve the use of flash players.
So when the flash is good, or the HTML5 debate unfolds, the iphone app HTML5 has formed and is continuing to grow.