HTML5 and Flash

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HTML5 and Flash

• Understanding the Technology

Joe Pietruch jcpigm_at_rit.edu
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My Background

• BFA New Media Design, RIT
• MS Game Design Development, RIT
• Lecturer, School of Interactive Games Media
• ActionScript for 7 years (saturated)
• HTML for 13 years (intermittent)

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Why Flash Won Me

• HTML Browser Compatibility (IE6)
• Flash Ran the Same Everywhere(Im a lazy
  perfectionist. The lazy usually wins.)
• Flash makes Interactive, Fun Experiences

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Whats Changed Since?

• Today and into the future
• Standards-Compliant(-ish) Browsers
• Flash Doesnt run Everywhere (thanks, Steve)
• I still make Interactive, Fun Experiences
• Now I have more choices.

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Flash is Dying?

• Apple Declares War on Flash
• iOS will not run Flash content
• Flash Player for Mac was historically terrible
• Google Maps Flash API deprecated
• Adobe ceases development for FP Mobile
• Ubiquitous Mobile Internet is the Future!

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Flash is Adapting

• StageVideo / Stage3D / Molehill API
• Hardware-accelerated video / 3D graphics
• Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
• write in ActionScript 3
• deploy to Mac / Linux / PC / iOS / Android / TVs

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What is Flashs Place?

• Ask Google!
• Google still uses Flash for
• GMail Attachment Uploader
• Sound for its Doodles (PacMan, Les Paul)
• Casual Games (fb, Kongregate, Newgrounds)
• Rich Media Players (YouTube)
• Rich Animations

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A Brief History of Flash Dev.

• 00 - AS 1.0 mainly animation control
• 03 - AS 2.0 games and apps (mild OOP)
• 06 - AS 3.0 / Flex / AIR solid OOP framework
• ?? - AS 4.0? Threading? Generics? Overloading?
• FlashLite the forgotten one
• embedded in devices (early mobile, cameras, Wii)
• subset of AS / AS 2.0

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Flash HTML5/JS/CSS
Display Organization Display List DOM
Display Manipulation transform (x, y, scale, rotation) Box Model(margin, padding)
Procedural Graphics BitmapData,Graphics API ltcanvasgt Drawing,SVG
Client-side Scripting ActionScript 3.0 JavaScript
3D 3D Transforms, Stage3D/Molehill APIs,many other 3rd-party APIs CSS Transforms, WebGL, O3D, Unity Web Player
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insert stolen slides here

• slides.html5rocks.com
• Marcin Wichary and the Google Chrome team
• Thanks for doing a lot of work for me! -)

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_at_fwa Favourite Website Awards

• I love it when someone right clicks on a site
  just to make sure it's Flash before hating it.

_at_zeh Zeh Fernando (firstborn)
I right click before being impressed.It's slow
and shitty, right clickflash? "This is slow and
shitty".HTML? "Impressive."
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Big Spaceship

• Our stance has always been one of technology
  agnosticism. We've always felt a bit pigeon holed
  into the whole notion that we're a Flash shop...
  we never were that at all. We love Flash, but we
  also love making things for mobile devices and
  huge screen devices and video game devices and
  any other device we can learn about and build
  for.

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_at_airdeck Eric Decker (firstborn)

• great video on the flash vs html5 debate
  http//digs.by/hLERNj (via _at_zeh)

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JimmyFlip

• It's a practical, not ideological, decision to
  use Flash. HTML5 audio is weak in comparison to
  Flash's handling of audio and inconsistently
  supported across browsers (eg. Firefox doesn't
  play mp3s and never will). Standards are great
  but when they are so far below other existing,
  widely-supported technologies, what's the point?

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http//dft.ba/-webtalk

• materials, links, readings

Joe Pietruch jcpigm_at_rit.edu