We should be used to that.'arrrgh' said:Looks like we'll be waiting a while.
Well it's about flash on omap, pandora = omap, = interesting news.'r00tw00t' said:
'lulzfish' said:I guess that's good news technically, but I'm looking forward to SVG, Javascript, and SMIL combining [and I'll form the head..] into some kind of super Flash replacement that relies on native browser rendering and open standards.
Flash is only good for backwards compatibility.
HTML 5, <canvas>, <audio>, <video> and JavaScript are a pretty good equivalent for Flash. SVG would be less easy to work with (less well integrated in HTML than in flash), but it would fill in most of the gaps left. I've actually proposed a GSoC project for something like that. We're working on it
It JUST became Q2 2009, so it is conceivable that a Q1 2010 release is a year away (they could release it March 31st 2010 and still say it was Q1 2010). Sure, technically, it`s just a matter of months, but so then is Q1 3010 technically just a matter of months. It would be more accurate to say it is a year away. Also, when do release dates ever get changed in favor of a shorter period vs a longer period? If the PR people say it will be Q1, then it will probably be Q2 or later.... marketers' timelines seldomly reflect developer's timelines.'lulzfish' said:
Um, you do realize that a great number of sites use Flash for the most asinine features, right? Some sites are completely unusable without flash, and they aren't necessarily sites that are obscure.'sindbad' said:Flash is only good for backwards compatibility.
HTML 5, <canvas>, <audio>, <video> and JavaScript are a pretty good equivalent for Flash. SVG would be less easy to work with (less well integrated in HTML than in flash), but it would fill in most of the gaps left. I've actually proposed a GSoC project for something like that. We're working on it
hedwards said:Um, you do realize that a great number of sites use Flash for the most asinine features, right? Some sites are completely unusable without flash, and they aren't necessarily sites that are obscure.'sindbad' said:Flash is only good for backwards compatibility.
HTML 5, <canvas>, <audio>, <video> and JavaScript are a pretty good equivalent for Flash. SVG would be less easy to work with (less well integrated in HTML than in flash), but it would fill in most of the gaps left. I've actually proposed a GSoC project for something like that. We're working on it
Sucre those things are newer and do work, but if the people writing the site aren't using them, well then they're really not a realistic option. Backwards compatibility implies that something is replacing it that is newer, and that really hasn't happened yet.
Indeed, especially while we have IE that refuses to stay up-to-date to even the most basic standards and most certainly hasn't got "<canvas>"-support.
that was windows mobile. for arm, as tegra is arm (v6, iirc). so yes, clearly there is a functional port of flash for arm, but we already knew that.'cb88' said:
