Flash should have seen the writing on the wall when iPhone was launched. We should be striving to deliver more and more HTML5 based web apps that are primarily aimed at the mobile / light device audience than desktops .
It is amazing how far we have come in terms of not requiring plugins for essential user interface design .
I remember when I was blown away by the Google completely HTML5 balloons interactive on Firefox that used no plugins signalling that the future was here.
On a related note ; we have just started releasing our books on the online version of Turning The Pages Application by Armadillo Systems (Note: this is not an endorsement of any company ; merely the technology ) and they are amazingly responsive on mobile without any dependencies.
A preview is available here
http://goo.gl/1AWnqR
I might as well go out on a limb here and extend this to say : the native app is going the same was as flash. Native Apps would probably be less useful in the long run - perhaps the future is abstracting the code base to be more open source driven online web apps . Any platform any device.
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anjanesh babu
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Wow, cool, thanks Seb - really look forwards to seeing these - would
also be fascinating to hear what particular pitfalls you ran into /
benefits of each approach etc..
cheers!
Mike
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Sebastien Francois wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We’ve been working on rewriting some of the Tate Kids games (originally written in Flash) to HTML5 and Canvas and the result's been pretty good so far!
>
> The code will be released as open-source in the coming month, we'll let everyone know about it!
>
> Seb
> Lead developer at Tate
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> Sent: 18 September 2015 16:14
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> Subject: Re: What now Flash is dead?
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> Cheers Doug, that'd be interesting.
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> In my head there's a difference between whole sites using Flash and individual games / interactives - but maybe this is a false distinction..
>
> Mike
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> Doug MacBeath wrote:
>> Hi Mike
>> Very interesting article.
>> Lloyds Banking Group had a Flash - based interactive time line on its corporate website. We're in the process of migrating this over to HTML5, and whilst we had a few issues with video playback and general layout, we do now have a version that mostly replicates the original and seems to work fine on all mobile devices too - though I am reserving judgement until it goes live.When it does, I can post links to both the Flash and HTML5 versions so people can compare.
>> Regards Doug MacBeath CuratorMuseum on the Mound
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Mike Ellis<[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 18/09/2015 14:49 (GMT+00:00)
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>> Subject: [MCG] What now Flash is dead?
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>> 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-am
>> azon-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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