Archive for December, 2009

Enterprise adoption: Does HTML5 stand a chance against Flash technologies?

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I had been fol­low­ing up on HTML5 for the last few months and Abhay’s XKE ses­sion a cou­ple of days ago really helped bet­ter under­stand the scope and capa­bil­i­ties of HTML5 as a tech­nol­ogy. But hav­ing worked with Flex for nearly three years and being famil­iar with what the Flash plat­form does offer, there was not much in HTML5 that got me really excited.

In fact I am going to stick my neck out and make a series of claims and even­tu­ally con­clude that the ben­e­fits of choos­ing Adobe Flex today com­pletely over­shadow HTML5. Read the rest of this entry »