- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:07:39 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Grus Dinesen <dinesen@itu.dk>
- Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Jonas Grus Dinesen wrote: > > I understand that some of the motivation of html5 was to reduce the need > for plugins like the flash player. But are there some features that are > specifically developed with this intention? > > The question is relevant for me because I am working on a school project > (it university, copenhagen) in which I will try find out if, and to what > extend, certain features will be able to reduce or maybe eliminate the > need for fx flash. I want to focus on video, audio, svgand canvas tags > and apis. > > Then it would be nice with a clear argument for why I did not focus on > fx websockets, geolocation or other nice html5 things. We didn't really pay much attention to Flash at all, to be honest. However, I understand that a lot of features now in the Web platform as standards do cover very similar ground to what Flash can do. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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