Hi folks!

I'm writing master thesis in my university of technology and it is almost done.
I thought, that at the end, I could show results of my survey, it could be so interesting.

The tile of my thesis is: HTML5, Silverlight, Adobe Flash: client-side media-processing.

So, please help me to make my thesis brilliant

If you have some additional information to some question, please share it below.

Thanks, btw, I like to talk about this in this topic, if you have some question.

This is the link to my survey:
http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=3fxvwnl866d4zha485111

Answered, I missed 2 questions simply because I consider flash and silverlight no longer suitable for use in development web.

 

Ideally you should have a semi structured questionnaire to enable those little nuggerts of information.

Owww, thanks Fuzzy!

Indeed, Silverlight and Flash are weird. But, actually, after a few tests, I have to say, that Flash has quite a nice image/video processing performance.

 

Do you have some experiences with Flash/Silverlight developing?

Years ago I messed with flash, but silverlight, being a product of Microsoft, I would never touch it for web, Microsoft know as much about web as I do building rockets as far as I'm concerned

I filled the survey, I am also all for HTML5 + JS use for web!

I agree with the above about Silverlight and Flash.

 

@@Fuzzy Microsoft have indeed been terrible, but I feel it's not always going to be that way, they have been recently acquiring some of the biggest names in web, Christian Heilmann being their latest big name aquisition, I met him in Norway he's a big protagonist for the open web and standards, believe me he would not join Microsoft if he didn't like their plans going forward. Take a read of his recent article on the matter, it makes for interesting reading. http://christianheilmann.com/2015/01/29/on-towards-my-next-challenge-2/

 

That said all the current software released by them bar the latest two IE versions is utter garbage. Fash despite being an Adobe product is also garbage.

Edited February 1, 201511 yr by rbrtsmith

Thanks for your answers. But I still need more, now 3 people filled up my survey

But on the other hand, Adobe Flash has quite a nice image processing performance. For example, image processing using HTML5+JS depends on a webbrowser. Actually, Flash is webbrowser-free. It is not necessary to watch out on type of webbrowser using Flash, you just need a plugin. After my tests, for egample, flash is faster than HTML5 using Firefox, IE or Lunascape (mean of engines).

Silverlight was depreciated years ago. YouTube posted (on 27th Jan) that HTML5 is now their default platform.

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.jp/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html

The link explains the benefits of HTML5 video over Flash.

How did you benchmark the JS? Well written JS animations will outperform flash. Google requestAnimationFrame and hardware acelerated animations. Using a setInterval or recursive setTimeout paired with adjusting the CSS left property for example is hugely unperformant compared to using a requestAnimationFrame callback paired with adjusting the css transform:translate3d property.

 

Flash is sort of web browser dependant or more so device dependant in that it won't run in an iPhone. Kind of a deal breaker for it that. Not to mention none of the content can be indexed by Google search bots.

 

And thirdly flash is owned by Adobe, a 3rd party whereas the web is moving / has moved to a more open platform. HTML5 is the future and I also believe JavaScript is too, it's an incredibly powerful language if used properly and for that reason I don't see a sucessor to it for quite some time (Apart from by itself with ES6).

 

Fourthly Youtube has/ is going to drop flash in favour of HTML5

 

 

Silverlight has never been and never will have any real market in the web. Up until now things built for web by Microsoft have not been good, .NET IE up untill 11 etc have all been awful. Going forward their headed towards more open source stuff and aquired some of the top guys in the industry so I can seem them releasing better products in the future,

 

 

I think that answers your question better than the survey -- I cann't complete the questions on silverlight and flash because I never used silverlight or flash in production and I never will.

Edited February 2, 201511 yr by rbrtsmith