HTML5 can be a flash terminator

Apple's iphone and the ipad's support for Flash have been buzzing in the industry. Mr. Jobs also publicly criticized Adobe at the staff meeting and said the ipad would no longer support flash technology because of software problems in Flash. Whether the industry will withdraw from the stage of history, whether the HTML5 will become the Internet standards and other issues of the big discussion, also gradually surfaced.

There is no doubt that Adobe's Flash technology has helped fill the gap between Cross-platform multimedia experience on the Web. In addition to selling the fiery iphone and the upcoming ipad, Flash can be found in almost all other operating systems, whether it is a desktop operating system, a mobile operating system, or a Web browser.

Flash itself is almost a standard, if you suspect this view, you can not install Flash Player software on the host to visit the site, you will soon see how popular flash in the Internet applications. Although Flash can be a technical standard for the Internet, it is still a proprietary technology for a vendor.

HTML5 relative to Flash, and other proprietary development platforms, such as Microsoft's Silverlight, the advantage of HTML5 is that it is a protocol standard-or, at least, that the technology becomes standard when it matures, rather than a single vendor solution like Flash.

To hire developers to create and maintain web sites, small and medium-sized enterprises have to pay a lot of money, even if the total amount of money may not be large, but at least relative to their overall budget is also a huge expense. In these sites, these corporate sites rely heavily on Adobe Flash technology to provide its users with animations and other novel and stylish interactive content.

Giving up flash will require a redesign of the site, which can be said to be huge and, more frightening, that businesses will inevitably invest heavily again. But instead of watching Flash slowly die, small and medium-sized enterprises are likely to decisively abandon flash and turn to new internet technologies such as HTML5.

But for now, Flash isn't really going to die. It still takes time for HTML5 to win enough clout and start to really threaten flash.

"I think one of the challenges facing HTLM 5 is how to consistently display HTML 5 on different browsers," says Shantanu Naranyen, Adobe's chief executive. HTML 5 must wait at least 10 years before it becomes an Internet standard that supports many browsers. ”

Since the birth of 2004, HTML5 has developed more than 5 years, and only now, HTML5 has become a mainstream internet technology, and began to cut in the Web browser and Web site. Currently, the latest version of the three major browsers,--ie browsers, Firefox and Google Chrome browser, all contain elements that support HTML5 compatibility.

Although HTML5 's success does not necessarily mean the death of Flash, Adobe needs to take advantage of HTML5 's fledgling opportunity to continue to push the innovation and upgrade of flash technology so that it can play an important role even in HTML5 eminence. Although HTML5 can provide the same features and features as Flash, HTML5 is still not perfect, so adobe can take the opportunity to reshape flash to fill the gaps in HTML5.

However, Flash is a single vendor solution, users have to experience flash, they have to install additional software, the recent dispute with Apple also shows that Flash is not suitable for all platforms.
Small and medium-sized enterprises should study carefully to determine whether companies need to migrate their Web sites to HTML5 in the future to take advantage of the technical advantages of HTML5 standards and maintain a leading position.

Text/Sohu It