நான் முன், வரலாறு மூலம் ஒரு சுருக்கமான பயணம்…
அது 1999. இன்டர்நெட் எக்ஸ்புளோரர் - 5 சூடான பொருட்கள், தொழில்நுட்ப குமிழ் பெருகிய. மற்றும் மரியானோ ரிவேரா உலக தொடர் எம்விபி உள்ளது. மற்றும் இளம் (மூச்சுத்திணறல்.)
ஒரு வலை டெவலப்பர் தனது கணினியில் உட்காரும், காபி குடிப்பது மற்றும் சில குறியீடு எழுதி. அவர் ஒரு உலாவி அடிப்படையிலான விளையாட்டை செய்ய விரும்புகிறார். அவர் இதை செய்ய முடியும் ஒரே வழி இன்டராக்டிவ் படம் செய்ய அடோப் ஃபிளாஷ் பிளாட்பார்ம் பயன்படுத்த மற்றும் அவரது வலைத்தளத்தில் என்று உட்பொதிக்க.
அவர் தனது தளத்தில் ஒரு வீடியோ வைக்க. YouTube sounds like the name of a cheesy subway line, nothing more. Our developer has to make a Flash movie for that, கூட.
He sighs as he makes YET ANOTHER Flash movie. Geez, would someone make an alternative already?
பார், back in the day you had to use Adobe’s Flash to embed videos, make browser games,
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and just make your site look decent. And guess what, we STILL use it for the same things. This is all well and good, except:
- Flash has more security holes than a bullet-riddled piece of Swiss cheese.
- Flash is a closed standard, meaning that Adobe decided what you could or could not do. You couldn’t use Flash in open-source projects, அல்லது, without an official Adobe plugin.
- Flash is very resource intensive, overwhelming some weaker processors and making sites difficult to use.
- அது not cross-platform: iOS doesn’t support it, it sucks on Linux, and it’s buggy on every other operating system.
Something’s brewing; no, not your coffee
A few years ago (official work started in 2004, although it didn’t catch on till later), உருக்கு W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, the guys who are basically in charge of the Internet) மற்றும் WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) partnered up to make a new version of HTML, the language used to build web pages.
Around the same time, the W3C started work on a new version of CSS, the language used to design the appearance of webpages.
It was clear something was going to happen.
A revolution in the making
மூலம் 2008 people had gotten sick of using Flash for everything because of its many weaknesses (outlined above.)
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Conveniently, the latest draft of HTML – HTML5 – allowed you to embed videos in your website without using Flash. And you could even make Flash-free இணைய விளையாட்டு using a little HTML5; CSS3, the latest version of CSS; and a generous scoop (cup?) உள்ள Javascript, the scripting language used to make pages interactive.
Needless to say, web developers started noticing these new technologies. ஏன்? Take a look at the benefits of using HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (apps created with these 3 technologies are generally called HTML5 apps even though they use other technologies. Go figure.)
- HTML5 and co. are open standards: they’re maintained by organizations, not companies, so there are no restrictions on their use. They can be used in open-source projects
- They’re safe and secure, partially because they’re open standards. And because Adobe doesn’t maintain them.
- They’re cross-platform. Assuming you have a decent browser (anything not named Internet Explorer 8 or below), they’ll work on any operating system. iDevices, தொலைபேசிகள், tablets, computers… எதையும். That’s good because Flash doesn’t work on iDevices and it demolishes the battery of smartphones.
- They’re less resource-intensive than Flash. A lot of web games using HTML5 run very smoothly on phones, while Flash games teeter on disaster.
The list goes on and on.
Wait, it’s happening already
HTML5 apps only rose to prominence in 2010 with Steve Jobs’s continuing refusal to put Flash on iDevices. (நன்றாக, a lot of web developers started using them a few years earlier.) But in that short time, they’ve come a long way.
You’d be surprised what’s been done with HTML5:
- Angry Birds uses HTML5 for everything except the sound, which it uses Flash
HP's webOS uses HTML5. for.
- Mozilla has created a gallery of great HTML5 demos.
- And Mozilla’s also made a gallery of the best HTML5 games.
- HP’s webOS mobile platform uses HTML5 for storage and some interface stuff.
- Microsoft’s விண்டோஸ் 8 will be able to run apps written in HTML5, CSS3, மற்றும் JavaScript.
- Web apps like Google Docs and Gmail use HTML5.
- YouTube lets you use HTML5’s video embedding capabilities to view videos without Flash.
And more is being done every day.
End of the road for Flash?
As much as I would like to think this means we can wave goodbye to Flash, it doesn’t. Videos will still require it, a lot of flashy (pun intended) websites won’t work without it, and the vast majority of internet games need Flash.
As for desktop apps? Email clients are rare nowadays amongst casual users, but other than that desktop apps are still around. Web apps will get more and more sophisticated, என்றாலும், so desktop apps’ days are numbered. ஆனாலும், like Flash, they will still hang around.
HTML5 has come a long, நீண்ட வழி. வெறும் 10 years ago web designers couldn’t make a cohesive website layout using HTML to save their lives. Now HTML is being used for everything from Angry Birds to Windows 8. And the list will continue to grow.
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