Column by Li linjie: HTML 5 decisive battle flash

In the new Internet era, the existing HTML technology can no longer meet the needs of rich Internet applications, which makes Web developers more and more eager for HTML 5, HTML 5 is the product of responding to the latest changes in the Internet, although it is still a long-term process from the adoption and implementation of this standard. At the same time, many people predict that flash will be sold in the years that HTML5 tells the development.

 

Flash accounts for 97% of the market share for 10 years. will such a platform disappear? Let's analyze the advantages and disadvantages of HTML5 and flash. Flash is called a cross-platform operation. Whether you are a Linux or a Windows operating system, even some Android mobile devices can run flash smoothly. Many websites also use the flash architecture. To sum up, Flash has been popularized for more than 10 years. Various website tutorials and development tools are also available everywhere, and the learning cost is low. Although most development tools are charged, they are not used in China, flash has many advanced features, such as multi-File Upload, which are beyond the reach of HTML5 (maybe I did not find them). If Flash runs on various platforms, you only need to install corresponding browser plug-ins.
But does not affect the cross-platform features. On a PC, flash consumes little resources and runs smoothly on mobile phones.

HTML 5 is the greatest leap in Web development standards over the past decade. Unlike previous versions, HTML 5 is not only used to express web content. Its new mission is to bring Web into a mature application platform. On the HTML 5 platform, video, audio, images, animations, and interactions with computers are standardized. HTML 5 is parsed and executed by the browser without special plug-ins. It has gradually become a standard and widely accepted. However, different browsers have different levels of support, and it takes a long time to popularize them. HTML5 development and use are free of charge, but it will increase developers' learning costs, because up to now there is no tutorial for HTML 5. In addition, html
The standard release date of 5 is from 2014 to 2022.

For online video providers, they want their content to be played on Apple's iPhone and iPad in the future, and neither of these devices currently supports flash. However, each Internet service company does not have any HTML5 architecture site except Google and Facebook. What is more difficult for HTML5 popularization is that there are many old versions of browsers Based on IE and Firefox, which do not support HTML5, the popularity of html5.

According to the above situation, HTML5 is obviously not optimistic if we want to defeat flash, and the HTML5 release time is later than that. During these years, no one knows what special content flash will launch.