[Yr7-10it] Apple and Flash

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hmm .. Apple avoids flash. Instead, CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript. Despite 
HTML5 being 'unfinished', perhaps Apple are being smart? Nil proprietry
plug-ins. Apple will even handle 90% of PDF operations without plug-ins.
 
"iPad Forcing Web Developers To Use CSS3, HTML5 and Open Standards"

 <http://www.htmlgoodies.com/daily_news/article.php/397106>

For web developers who have created websites which appear on Apple's
iPad-ready website list, <http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad>, it
is clear that Apple is taking a stand on emerging technologies. 

The question is, will HTML5, CSS3 and Open Standards be enough to deliver
cutting edge functionality to users? 

The iPad's (and iPhone's) lack of support for Flash has been a hotly 
debated topic among developers. 

Developers who want dynamic content, such as videos and animations on 
their website, have to create it using the next generation markup 
languages that the W3C is yet to classify as formal specifications.  
<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec>

According to Google search results, there are at least 74 million 
websites that are using the Adobe Flash format to display video and 
animation. Developers are already complaining that the tools that are 
available for HTML5 lack the advanced functionality that Flash tools 
currently have. 

Apple released its own guidelines on how to create websites which support 
the iPad (and) it boils down to the three core web technologies: CSS3, 
HTML5 and JavaScript ..

<http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/technotes/tn2010/tn2262.html>

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Cheers,
Stephen