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One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn't get anywhere.
I wonder if people may begin to go back to older browsers for surfing once ads have completely transitioned to HTML5 :-)
Silly question: Do people not use Click-to-play? I thought it was enabled in browsers by default now, or at least Firefox.
One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn't get anywhere.
Couldn't you use inline scripts and styles with images specified as data uris?
I wonder if people may begin to go back to older browsers for surfing once ads have completely transitioned to HTML5 :-)
Just add a bookmark to kill iframes, then you just click the button to instantly remove any iframe adverts (which includes all of google's ads).
Silly question: Do people not use Click-to-play? I thought it was enabled in browsers by default now, or at least Firefox.
I do (even as a sometime Flash developer), but unfortunately it's not always practical. There are plenty of sites, including Vimeo embeds and Vine, which cover the SWF with an HTML element - making it impossible to right-click to play the SWF. So you end up disabling click-to-play just to see the video you wanted.
I've blocked Google ads for so long I didn't realize they had been allowing Flash ads.
Also, what's to stop a "html5 ad" from inlining swfobject.js? They've fallen for malvertising before, so how could they not fall for an obfuscated swfobject.js? :)
Silly question: Do people not use Click-to-play? I thought it was enabled in browsers by default now, or at least Firefox.
Sometimes I'll go to a site in Safari or Chrome and and the flash won't play, but then I load it up in Canary and it works. I don't understand why those same sites don't just start with html5 if they already support it anyway.