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Re: Nissan Leaf

#22

Post by cookiecaper »

nika wrote: post #10

I'm glad to see this. I for one am looking forward to the day when javascript is at the point where it offers a level of programing ease for animations, etc, that you get with flash. (It may have happened already, last time I did lingo programming it was called lingo, and I am not conversant with the state of the art in javascript.) Or it seems that CSS is supporting animations and maybe that is a better choice over…

Flash is here to stay until someone creates a designer-oriented HTML5/JS/SVG IDE analogous to Adobe's designer-oriented Flash/AS IDE. Even after that point, it'll be a while before we see Flash head out the door. There's a lot that HTML5 doesn't address yet.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#23

Post by soljin2000 »

Unless ... You want to record video or audio from a user. Or run more than 5 fps in IE7 (about 25% of our users). Everyone says flash is a piece of crap but you can see from stuff like boxcar2d.com that can run for days without crashing or leaking. It's about how it's coded. There are tons of poorly programmed flashes out there but that doesn't make Flash bad. Flash has been abused but it's not the devil. far from it.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#24

Post by gloob »

trustfundbaby wrote: post #18
Johngibb wrote: post #4

Very cool, but I'm not sure creating a site that looks JUST like a flash site is really the right direction... ;)

You've got to convince the masses, that you can do Flash ... without flash first, before you can get them to stop using flash.

As soon as the masses decide that HTML5 = "Flash, but better", everything that is bad about Flash will rapidly become everything that's bad about HTML5.

Changing the underlying technology will not change the people who use it.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#25

Post by soljin2000 »

soljin2000 wrote: post #23

Unless ... You want to record video or audio from a user. Or run more than 5 fps in IE7 (about 25% of our users). Everyone says flash is a piece of crap but you can see from stuff like boxcar2d.com that can run for days without crashing or leaking. It's about how it's coded. There are tons of poorly programmed flashes out there but that doesn't make Flash bad. Flash has been abused but it's not the devil. far from it…

PS the links for the video or any of the others around the car don't work.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#26

Post by noibl »

If by 'we' you mean Nissan, well... great.

Counterexample: http://blog.phono.com/2011/02/17/how-to-build-a-voip-based-b... (browser-based VOIP, Flash under the hood)

Bizarrely, Chrome has support for speech input on text-based forms which translates microphone input to text on their servers, but it doesn't expose direct access to the audio. Argh!

Re: Nissan Leaf

#29

Post by varaon »

cookiecaper wrote: post #22
nika wrote: post #10

I'm glad to see this. I for one am looking forward to the day when javascript is at the point where it offers a level of programing ease for animations, etc, that you get with flash. (It may have happened already, last time I did lingo programming it was called lingo, and I am not conversant with the state of the art in javascript.) Or it seems that CSS is supporting animations and maybe that is a better choice over…

Flash is here to stay until someone creates a designer-oriented HTML5/JS/SVG IDE analogous to Adobe's designer-oriented Flash/AS IDE. Even after that point, it'll be a while before we see Flash head out the door. There's a lot that HTML5 doesn't address yet.

"Someone" might be Adobe: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/preview-of-the-edge-p...

Re: Nissan Leaf

#30

Post by buro9 »

There is some flash on there (a video, under Specs > Features & Specs), but this is still a very impressive demonstration of how little it is actually required to achieve these kinds of effect.
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