Comments on: Web Design News 20/04/10 http://boagworld.com/news/20-04-10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20-04-10 Advice on web design and digital strategy from Paul Boag Tue, 21 May 2013 11:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mr Matt http://boagworld.com/news/20-04-10/#comment-7799 Mr Matt Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:02:44 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=3603#comment-7799 Well for me although certain things can be done in javascript, the amount of time spent doing R&D is just ridiculous when doing it in flash would take half the time. Also I’m not fully set on html5 video. Looking at it from a content provider’s perspective you’d have to create the same video content up to 3 times.

Once for Safari which will only do h.264 video. Once for those that only support open source codecs. And then provide a flash fall back for people not using a browser that support the video tag.

So additional time is spend transcoding the video into different formats, then you need to store the video in these different formats to then push it to your visitors. Haven’t got time for all that I’m afraid.

And don’t get me started on audio. Personally flash has done a lot of good, and Adobe is fighting for its existence by making it available on mobile devices.

If browser vendors could agree on what codecs could be supported things wouldn’t be so bad. Not going into this one as my comment is long enough already.

Think of how horrible video streaming was before the use of flash for video content. We had a plugin for real player, a plugin for quicktime, a plugin for windows media player, and half the time it wouldn’t play natively in your browser but launch the application. I was once on the down with flash bandwagon that everyone seems to be jumping on, but I’ve slowly come to realise that in some ways it makes life easier.

]]> By: Danny Murphy http://boagworld.com/news/20-04-10/#comment-7798 Danny Murphy Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:53:51 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=3603#comment-7798 Flash has it’s time and place.
I have just built a standards compliant website about an major Australian historical event. A main part of that website is an education section with multiple educational activities both on and offline. One of the many online activities is a flash interactive game with animated tutorials, vector graphics, database driven dynamic Morse code messages, drag and drop buttons, etc now this could be done in javascript but it would be the wrong tool for the job and not be as rich as an experience for the user.

I would agree that build a whole website using flash is wrong. The argument shouldn’t be flash is evil and we don’t need to support it because we can now show movies with HTML.

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