A Proprietary Web? Blame the W3C | TechConsumer Paul Ellis - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Jul 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  A must read. This article was slashdotted.

  HTML5 WHATWG Adobe Microsoft Flash Silverlight

  • The real culprit

     

    This may seem like a forgone conclusion to many of you after seeing the W3C’s development timetables, but the real reason Flash and Silverlight exist is because the “open-web” people dropped the ball. HTML simply can handle what Flash and Silverlight can do. It has become increasingly stale for modern web development needs.

     

    Here is some perspective, HTML5 has finally added a tag for handling video. Flash 6 came out in 2002 with video support! Where is the HTML version of Line Rider? It is in Flash and Silverlight now. If you want to see something really interesting check out Hard Rock Cafe’s memorabilia page (Silverlight 2 required) and tell me if you’ve ever seen something like that with HTML

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  Gary Edwards on 2008-07-10
  Cross post: http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/08/a-proprietary-web-blame-the-w3c/
  
  PsuedoSavant

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