Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Sep 2009 18:39 UTC
The draft of the HTML5 specification has been under discussion for a while now, but despite the fact that it's not yet finished, all major browsers have implemented at least the most important aspects of it - except Microsoft. The company did provide substantive criticism of the specification in early August, but now the company has also endorsed the video and audio tags.
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2005-09-17
I don't care if it is the bees knees ... since it comes from just one company, it is totally unacceptable. "
Unacceptable, so the action to be taken is…?
My argument was not so much of favoring Flash over JavaScript, but to bring in the issue that whereas Adobe has created a wonderful development environment, the rest of the industry has failed in going from file format to accessible tools to create those. Creating SVG, Canvas, DHTML, etc for non-programmers is basically out of the question.
Since the first argument is "unacceptable" I would assume people would demand having decent development tools accessible to artists or where artists and programmers can easily integrate to, of which there are none to the level of Flash.
Flash took off because everyone could create content with it. If the same is not for those preferable formats, they are not going to take off.
Edited 2009-09-18 08:03 UTC