Jezza -
I was just having a disruptive Friday pm moment. But I am fed up with
people taking the easy route out and avoiding proper web publishing by
bunging content into pdfs.
JP
On 18 Sep 2015 15:36, "Jeremy Ottevanger" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> give up on PDFs, Jon? I've seen the alternative so I know what I think
>
> http://bit.ly/1iUJwqT
>
>
>
> Jeremy Ottevanger
> Technical Web Manager
> Imperial War Museum
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> pratty
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> Subject: Re: [MCG] What now Flash is dead?
>
> Mike
>
> I'm glad Flash is dead; I remember the headaches we had trying to
> commission a kids game at Culture24 using Flash MX. We just wanted it to be
> accessible, but it seemed to be almost impossible thing to ask for,
> according to the devs we spoke to.
>
> So HTML5 is a revelation, really, compared to that. If someone could kill
> off PDFs I'd be quite pleased, too. Trying to look at them on my 5 inch HTC
> makes me cross. And they're still not searchable. Give up on them, people!
>
> Jon
> On 18 Sep 2015 15:01, "Ben Rubinstein" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > By no means a complete answer, but I'd suggest in most cases I'd ask
> > either "why wouldn't we use HTML5 here?" or "why wouldn't we use video
> > here?" (with a suitable codec, eg if it's an animation). Only if there
> was
> > a reason to rule both of those out would I look elsewhere.
> >
> > In regards to the-kinds-of-interactives-we-used-to-build-in-Flash, if the
> > reason not to use HTML5 is lack of suitable level programming skills,
> there
> > are tools - the one I'm somewhat familiar with is Hype [1] - which give a
> > very Flash-like authoring interface, and deliver in HTML5. Definitely
> > worth a look for people who were previously happy to create Flash
> > interactives.
> >
> > My 1p (sale now on)
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > [1] http://tumult.com/hype/
> >
> > On 18/09/2015 14:49, Mike Ellis wrote:
> >
> >> So Flash is dead, or at least in a ditch, slowly taking a last breath..
> >>
> >> One of many articles...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/24/adobe-flash-dying-amazon-google-chrome
> >>
> >>
> >> The question is - what replaces it? If you've got some in-depth stuff
> you
> >> want
> >> to show - mechanisms in old objects, how guns fire, zooming into clock
> >> workings - ...how?
> >>
> >> Is it WebGL? Is browser compatibility good enough? Is the capability
> >> there? Is
> >> it fast enough? Ok on mobile?
> >>
> >> Or... video?
> >>
> >> Or is the whole "interactive" thing a thing we need to re-think?
> >>
> >> Any good examples, thoughts....?
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >
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