Will HTML5 Edge Out Flash?

摘要

After initially underestimating the popularity of the iPad, I became an early adopter. The iPad was released in April 2010. I bought one a month later and have enjoyed it immensely, except for one thing: Much web-delivered multimedia uses Flash, and the iPad doesn't support Flash. As an alternative, iPad plays multimedia delivered in other formats, including HTML5, an emerging standard-in-progress. As someone who favors open standards and open source, I think HTML5 may become an attractive alternative. After all, the World Wide Web is built on open standards. What really caught my eye though was an Adobe press release issued on Aug. 1: Adobe announced an "Early Preview of New HTML5 Web Motion and Interaction Design Tool" called Adobe Edge. Adobe Edge is a new motion and interaction design tool that lets creative pros build animated web content using web standards such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.