Comments on: This is the Kind of Thing I Would Have Done in Flash http://www.curiousfind.com/blog/204 Web development by Jamie McDaniel Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Robert Kabwe http://www.curiousfind.com/blog/204/comment-page-1#comment-11043 Robert Kabwe Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:03:52 +0000 http://www.curiousfind.com/blog/?p=204#comment-11043 That's really interesting. Flash is a great catch-all technology. But it has competition at the low end (transitions etc like this which can easily be done in JavaScript and the up and coming html5 video) and high end (tech-pushing 3d done better by Unity). Unity is as proprietary as Flash so the high end is safer for now, but with open source standards based JavaScript methods to create all these basic effects, and with JavaScript and not Flash working on Apples mobile devices - an ecosystem that dominates the mobile market and imagination - I'd say it's better to do this type of work in JavaScript whenever possible and if it makes sense for that project. That’s really interesting. Flash is a great catch-all technology. But it has competition at the low end (transitions etc like this which can easily be done in JavaScript and the up and coming html5 video) and high end (tech-pushing 3d done better by Unity).

Unity is as proprietary as Flash so the high end is safer for now, but with open source standards based JavaScript methods to create all these basic effects, and with JavaScript and not Flash working on Apples mobile devices – an ecosystem that dominates the mobile market and imagination – I’d say it’s better to do this type of work in JavaScript whenever possible and if it makes sense for that project.

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