I love twitter but not a day passes by where I don’t see a ‘Flash Killer’ tweet or article. Flash users fight for Flash and accessibility enthusiasts fight for HTML5. Why has nobody stopped to think that all these platforms can co-exist?
HTML5 is great I’ll give it that and anything it can be used for I believe it should when the time is right. We have to face the reality that HTML5 cannot do as much as Flash can technically, both platforms have their strong points and weaknesses. People consider the Flash Platform to be taxing on computer performance, I argue that this is not true, the content that Flash designers work on are typically very rich and complicated media, this media would be taxing in any format. I have seen some awesome HTML5 demos and it’s capability has been outstanding however it is no better than Flash in its capabilities and as far as I’m concerned for many years coming more people will have the Flash player plug-in than those who have HTML5 capable browsers.
When you enter the mobile sector though the debate is even stronger, most of the new mobile platforms at the moment support Flash and HTML5, except for the iPhone. The debate on performance and accessibility these platforms is a hot topic at the moment and I believe that people need to calm down and let the platforms co-exist with one another to make a more dynamic and richer internet experience. Also don’t get me started on Unity!
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There is no doubt some awesome stuff come out of Microsoft’s Research and Development department but when it comes to handling data and organisation Microsoft falls short against Google and Apple. But as we can see from the video below their new data organisation engine looks like it could be a real game changer. This sort of technology is great at finding what information you want and cross referencing it with other information, I can see this being a real game changer for Wikipedia. This sort of application is very dynamic and could be incorporated as a web app allowing live information to be accessed anywhere in the world with automatic cross referencing. You can download the application today on Windows here.
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OnLive is a cloud gaming service that is currently in development, it aims to port games over to your TV, Mac, PC and iPhone. The way this will work is by the game rendering server-side, and any inputs being sent to the server. I first heard of this technology about a year ago and in terms of pure speed through optimization it has come a long way.
The best thing I’ve seen about the technology is how games can be played on multiple devices in real time. Although I don’t understand all the jargon about how they have optimized the network structure, I can’t help to be hugely impressed. The 48 minute video after the break is long, detailed but so worth it. All I can do now is hope the technology arrives here across the pond in the UK. However for you guys you can rock the beta here.
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The image you see above is a genarative diagram map of the internet, crated as part of the opte project. The internet is a huge part of all of our lives, especialy us web developers and in the UK we have a very poor network.
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