![]() Flash has done an awesome job of pulling the braces up on browsers for the last decade, and we've needed it, but Flash is so much more than just video or font rendering. The native video element will (eventually) allow us to drop using Flash for video. sIFR is used to bring "custom" fonts to the browser, but now we have really good support for native custom fonts via the CSS fonts module, and products like TypeKit and FontDeck are making it easy for web authors to include those custom fonts without the need of Flash. I think HTML5 and the Open Web will replace Flash where Flash has been used as a stopgap. I personally don't think HTML will replace Flash. Would you like to see Flash replaced by HTML? Adobe released Buzzword which relies on Flash, but on the other side we have Google Docs which relies entirely on the Open Web. This ranges from the simple image galleries to full fledged word processors. There's lots of examples of apps and effects that have been achieve using Flash in the first decade of this century, but today we can build these using Open Web technologies. WebGL is very much at an early stage in it's development, only really (currently) appearing in the nightly builds of Webkit and Firefox, equally I've seen videos from Mozilla putting WebGL on to a Nokia device with no optimisation and it being able to render pretty well. HTML, SVG, CSS and JavaScript are very far along to replacing a lot of what I see Flash doing today - but it should be noted my browsing style is general usage, rather than gaming or interactive videos - which Flash is good at. How far is HTML (and SVG and CSS and WebGL and JavaScript) to reproducing what Flash can do today? I've published 38 videos for new developers, designers, UX, UI, product owners and anyone who needs to conquer the command line today.
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