HTML5 Canvas, is it the new Flash?????????

 

I know its in early stages and i dont think it lives up to flash quite yet. Though maybe one day?

 

Check out these examples at net tuts.

 

Examples

 

 

What do you think?

are you sponsored by Steve Jobs lol? Nowhere near the new Flash.

"I know its in early stages and i dont think it lives up to flash quite yet. Though maybe one day?"

 

 

Its fact that j-query has replaced flash in some areas and we have seen how drastic the web has improved over the last 10 years.

 

So what's not to say this could replace flash. I agree it wont replace flash yet, though i wouldn't rule it out in a few years to come.

 

 

Ok i haven't seen the "new flash" whats it like got any links?

Its certainly interesting but to do anything even remotely creative with it you need a degree in maths

yeah u guys are right in that it needs design tools but when they come it will ruin Flash no doubt

 

I think flash will remain but as a development tool that will primarily export in canvas/JS format

yeah u guys are right in that it needs design tools but when they come it will ruin Flash no doubt

 

I think flash will remain but as a development tool that will primarily export in canvas/JS format

 

No one knows what the future is! Exciting stuff!

Honestly... Here are my thoughts on HTML 5 (in full)

 

 

1. HTML 5 will not be the ultimate replace to Flash that will give rich animated features to websites without the pitfalls of Flash. It will provide rich animated features similar to Flash with ALL of the same pitfalls that Flash gives us with some nasty additional ones.

 

 

2. HTML 5 will not be particularly useful to Artists who want to create animated user interfaces, create animations and other such artistically focused online products. Adobes Flash SDK is extremely powerful and without a powerful editor its a hinderance to artists.

 

3. It will not replace Flash for a very, very, very long time, if at all. We're not talking months, we're not talking a couple of years but many years.

 

 

 

Here are some of the problems as I see them:

 

 

1. Browser support and compatability will dictate business uptake, companies simply will not alienate huge audiences by bringing in features huge amounts of people cannot access. It hasn't worked that way in the past and will not suddenly change (techies, tech companies etc. live in a different bubble to businesses).

 

2. HTML 5 at present is a huge resource hog, it is in practice really no more efficient than Flash. I've not seen any examples of HTML 5 RIA/Animated content yet that is acceptable.

 

3. Flash can still at this time do far, far more than HTML 5, it has a very, very long way to go until it catches up and we have to remember that Adobe aren't going to sit back and ignore HTML 5, they are going to enhance Flash, so there is a battle to be fought there.

 

4. Cross Browser compatability is an issue, one of the wonderful things about Flash is how it will react the same way on all browsers, HTML 5 will not due to how browser vendors fail to follow standards. It's all fair and well to harp on about HTML being "standards compliant" and Flash being "non standards compliant", however in reality Flash is more effectively "standards compliant" in result, where it matters.

 

At the moment we do have to tweak our websites to match all browsers, to ensure it works and functions the same way on all browsers (admittedly its got easier with IE6 being phased out, but its still extra work), the complexities of animation and rich content under HTML 5 I beleive will be hellish.

 

 

So in summary...

 

HTML 5 MIGHT replace Flash one day, nobody can say for sure either way, nor can anyone say with any certainty or make any educated claim either way. HTML 5 is still in its infancy and has a very, very long way to go. It is a question we will not be able to answer for sure for a very long time.

 

If it does replace Flash, then the internet will not be a better place for it, it will be in some ways be worse; and here is why.

 

 

1. Those freaking annoying Flash banner ads everyone hates. Well guess what, we can now have them on our websites without using Flash... the HTML 5 ones will still be as annoying as the Flash ones, you'll still need your ad blocker... it may well be more difficult to remove them too!

 

2. We'll still see poorly developed, slow, cumbersome, poorly designed animated websites that blast you with sound when you dont want it, that are so over animated you're browser slows to a crawl, that have horrible navigation and interfaces that are difficult to work with. They will just be built with HTML 5 instead of Flash and in turn probably be more "validatable" in developers minds and thus pleantyful.

 

3. My iPhone and iPad will die when I go to some HTML 5 animated website. The iPad and iPhone CANNOT cope with animated websites, HTML 5 or otherwise.

 

 

We'll still get the same ****, just one a different platform. I might just post a thread with my tests.