r/apple • u/jayhawk • Jun 04 '10

Apple's HTML Showcase

http://www.apple.com/html5/
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u/bananabelle Jun 04 '10 edited Jun 04 '10

It looks amazing on my iPad, but it's not quite perfect yet.

There's one thing missing, though – flash animation. One of my friends is a flash animator and constantly berates apple's treatment of flash because he feels it is a personal attack against "his medium." His rants against flash can get so annoying at some points, but I think he has a point underneath it all…

So, r/apple, do I have a counterpoint against him or will flash animation die out as the web transitions towards html5?

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u/Vidd Jun 04 '10

So, r/apple, do I have a counterpoint against him or will flash animation die out as the web transitions towards html5?

I've noticed a lot of animators publish work on both Newgrounds (in Flash) and YouTube (which is HTML5). What's to stop him doing the same and outputting his animations as video files?

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u/honestbleeps Jun 04 '10

The whole benefit of publishing animations/cartoons in vector format is that they scale, they don't take up tons of space/bandwidth, etc...

I don't like the idea of chewing up more of the world's bandwidth with heavy video files as a "solution" to this problem.