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Re: Jump back in time with HTML5

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Post by ThomPete »

ugh wrote: post #5
ThomPete wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes that the web the web is that everything is possible (even if it's illegal)

(Oh no! I didn’t want to cause some discussion about what’s the most important thing about the web. Really not! Those things tend to get ugly. That was a really bad phrase I picked there. What I meant was that many of the websites they linked to were niche websites focused on nice presentation. None of the websites everyone knows uses Flash for a major feature. I at least don’t know of any except YouTube.)

I 100% agree with you.

But I think the point is that the things that you can do with Flash today are the things that HTML5 might do in the future.

But to be quite honest I find the whole stacking HTML5 up against Flash to be lame anyway.

If anything Flash is a much lesser worthy competitor to the apps which in themselves are not well known.

But you are right. Let's not get into a discussion about the web as such :)

Re: Jump back in time with HTML5

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Post by ulfurk »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #3

It's funny that the say that's the "wrong way" to do an image gallery, as image galleries in Flash are something that really annoy me, since it's so unnecessary. Luckily you don't really see them anymore.

I agree. There is no wrong way but Flash galleries for the most part annoy me to. They're useless for the most part because mostly they can be implemented without Flash anyway.

But you do still see a lot of flash galleries on professional photography sites. Having talked to quite a few photographers I think most of them want to have Flash websites because "that's what everyone else does" ergo it must be right/cool. Some have claimed they want Flash galleries because of copyright issues, that images can't be saved directly from Flash sites. I guess they've never heard of print screen/screen grabbers.

The thing that really got me about this site though was how right down at the bottom they claimed "This page was made on a Mac using Adobe Flash but you probably won't notice". And they're right. I didn't really notice until I saw that text. Which is cool I guess. But it also explains why I couldn't ctrl+click to open links in new tabs or copy text off the page. You know, those kind of minor behaviors that have become standard in browsers and people have come to expect.

Re: Jump back in time with HTML5

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Post by fserb »

"Flash the way it is supposed to be today & tomorrow: fresh & innovative" and since the whole site is made in Flash, middle click on the demos doesn't open a new tab. It's just great!

Re: Jump back in time with HTML5

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Post by masklinn »

vaporstun wrote: post #10

When viewed on an iPad: " Apple loves to repeat history and made some supercool amazing examples that show you how the web was like 8 years ago with any browser equipped with Macromedia Flash 6. To recreate the full retro experience, Apple also developed the iPad, a tablet-device with a processor that could have blown your socks off 12 years ago. It's equipped with a browser that depends on HTML5. Due to the slow pro…

When viewed on Camino:

Nothing, I get a great big gray page with the Doom Button (the one to read flash) on it.

Oh yeah, and if I click on it, I can't copy the titles to my clipboard, my middle button breaks, I don't know where any link leads me and I don't get access to text services anymore. The bottom-right bunch of texts might as well be an image, nothing works on it and the links are completely fucked (instead of linking the text, you have to click the tiny little arrows on the right, how's that for discoverability?). Wheee.

Re: Jump back in time with HTML5

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Post by chronomex »

vaporstun wrote: post #10

When viewed on an iPad: " Apple loves to repeat history and made some supercool amazing examples that show you how the web was like 8 years ago with any browser equipped with Macromedia Flash 6. To recreate the full retro experience, Apple also developed the iPad, a tablet-device with a processor that could have blown your socks off 12 years ago. It's equipped with a browser that depends on HTML5. Due to the slow pro…

I'm using a normal computer with a normal browser. I have Opera and no Flash plugin. Most of the rest of the Web doesn't treat me like a second-class citizen.

Re: Jump back in time with HTML5

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Post by VMG »

cubtastic71 wrote: post #19

OK so did anyone go to http://www.lollibomb.com/ - the site/person who made that? Really? The bevel and drop-shadow they use are from the 80's - along with the crap-tastic logo... And did you actually say 97,00%? really?

He uses canvas to render his text links...
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