HTML5 and Flash

One of the hottest topics on the Web recently is the "open Web Technology HTML5", which has been extensively reported from foreign media to domestic media. From a lot of reports, if you enter "HTML5 Flash" from Google search engine 2 keyword combination, there will be 1百多万条 related information, it is like a storm, and now Ie8,safari 4 and FF 3.5 RC more or less support a number of HTML5 functions, which let HTML5 topic discussion more in full swing. Let's summarize the topic, which is basically the following types (please forgive me if I end the title with the question mark, because I'll talk about my opinion later):

HTML5 make Flash optional?

Will HTML5 Flash and Silverlight ringer?

HTML5 will unified the video plugin market instead of flash?

HTML5 will become Flash killer?

HTML5 or will let flash over gas?

HTML5 will severely impact RIA domain technology?

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I only listed above the representative topic, basically can say with HTML5 and flash these two words related topic more than 80% are all around above unfold, of course someone is affirmative, someone is the opposition. For HTML5 and Flash, I would like to be able to express my point of view, before the detailed description, to summarize my point of view:

Point one, I support HTML5 and open web technology

Opinion two I don't think HTML5 will replace the existing FLASH,HTML5 there's a long way to go

Next, let me elaborate my views in a variety of ways.

Point one, I support HTML5 and open web technology, and I think Adobe will also actively promote the HTML5 open standardization work. Adobe is the world's best graphic image Multimedia and network technology application software Development company (originally is the graphic image, acquired the MM after I added the network application technology development) One, in the past 13 years, Flash from 1.0 to 10.0, has become the most popular RIA technology on the Internet, Web interactive experience, audio, video, games, advertising, enterprise rich UI, etc., can see the figure of Flash, similarly, after the acquisition of Macromedia Company, Adobe also has a development tool that fully adheres to and guides the Web's standardized pages, and that is Dreamweaver, which supports the Web standards and CSS style standards of the consortium. I believe that HTML5 will play a crucial role in the evolution of web technology toward openness and standardization, and I have reason to believe that Adobe has reason to continue to play a supporting role in Web application development tools. Of course, the role of this supporter is by no means just an open and standardized point of view, from innovation, customer demand and future development opportunities, Adobe will not easily reject HTML5, and the reality is that Adobe is the standard and HTML5 Working committee member, and has been involved in a lot of standardized work, such as H.264,css,postscript,html,svg and PDF ISO32000 and so on.

Please see clearly, Adobe support HTML5, but does not represent Adobe will give up the support for Flash, Flash as a developed 13 years of mature technology, face many challenges, but also face many opportunities, when HTML5 really born, Flash will have plenty of opportunities to evolve and improve itself to adapt to the trends of technology development and innovation. My point of view is that as a leading company in technology, timely support for open and standardized technology will be a perfect opportunity for the company to bring improvements to existing products, develop new applications and broaden business opportunities, which is the smartest strategy for a mature, good company. It is like a wise man (or a winner) who always looks for opportunities from challenges and new things, constantly perfecting and improving themselves, instead of blindly complaining, rejecting and hindering the birth of new things. So I support HTML5 and open web technology, and I'm sure Adobe will support it as well.

Point two, I don't think HTML5 will replace Flash. HTML5 joined the support for the rich media, so that everyone really excited. But let's settle down and read the following paragraph carefully, believing that it will give you some thought. First of all, let's take a look at HTML5 's support for rich media, and I'll give you a rough list of the years that Flash Player supports the same functionality (not necessarily 100% correct, welcome to add):

Canvas labels (2D drawings and animations), which are supported by Flash Player 1, year 1995-1996

Video support, this part of Flash Player 7 began to support the year should be 2003

Audio support, this part of Flash Player 4 began to support the year should be 1999

Offline storage database, this part of Flash Player does not support (local shared Object only), it should be Air 1.0 start support, the year should be the end of 2007

Drag-and-drop support, this part of Flash Player 5,action Script 1 began to support, probably 2000-2001

Cross-document message communication (collaboration), which features Flash Player 7 to support the year should be 2003

MIME type and protocol event listener registration, HTML unique feature, not related to flash

New parsing rules related to browser interpreter, Flash Independent

new element control tags, such as progress bar, navigation, time, this part in Flash Player 4, I can do, the year is 1999, full control support is achieved through AS2 in FP7

New form controls, such as date, time, mail, links, and so on, are already available in AS1 component, probably from Flash MX and flash Player 6, which is 2002 years old.