HTML5 vs Flash

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:31:43 +0000

I was recently reading over the letter from Steve Job on Apple’s website regarding the fued between Apple and Adobe over flash support on Apple’s mobile devices. Luckily for our clients, Fresh Input sites are coded based on web standards (of which Apple is a part of) such as HTML5. Honestly though I’d never call it HTML5 since it is more of a combination of coding technologies. What this means to you, Fresh Input website’s look and perform great on the iPhone, iPad, Google Android and BlackBerry touch. No flash, no worries and you get the benefit of your sight being SEO friendly. See below for a small snippet of what Apple had to say about Flash and mobile devices. Read the full article afterward to get a better understanding of Apple’s perspective as to why they don’t utilize flash on their mobile devices. Google’s Android doesn’t utilize flash as well, so why no fuss there?

“Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers”, which pop up menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific spot. Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?

Even if iPhones, iPods and iPads ran Flash, it would not solve the problem that most Flash websites need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices.”

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HTML5 vs Flash