On 16 June 2010 09:21, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@extof.me> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Alexander Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:40 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@extof.me> wrote:
let's just all chant together in hopes that flash video will endure a quick, fiery demise, and webm/VP8 will rise from the ashes to claim it's place.
meh! flash works... I don't think I've tried the webm stuff... but I did try the youtube html5 beta and it just didn't work well. flash does more than just video anyways. I'll be ok with html5 <video> if it works as good as flash for the purpose... but flash does so much more,
Javascript+HTML5 does a lot of what flash can do now (all of these HTML5 demos work in firefox): http://craftymind.com/factory/html5video/CanvasVideo.html
And an asteroids game: http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/asteroids/
and it will certainly is better than going back to the days of 'proprietary plugins, and codecs'.
like... flash? ;-D
alexander beat me to the punch; i was also going to say that the extensive javascript APIs present in HTML5 are more than sufficient for the vast majority of reasons people use flash today.
my personal favorite:
http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/
... in javascript! brilliant.
Near to the end of last year I had a project which involved recreating a kind of simulation game done in Flash (a lot of videos, and a lot of logic using ActionScript) and a number of commercial, proprietary post-production tools. During the planning stages I promoted HTML5. However, it was difficult to see any benefit, both to me and the director. I simply couldn't get the same elements with the same ease in time, and thus failed to offer a presentation. They decided to stick with Flash, but I kept the multimedia tools within the open-source domain for post-production (simply because they couldn't care less and just needed the end-result). Well, the project is on hold for now so I'll see what kind of progress WebM/HTML5 has made up to this point. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD