[IAEP] Flash - Sugar - HTML5 and Circle-The-Cat
Sridhar Dhanapalan
sridhar at laptop.org.au
Sun Dec 11 07:49:57 EST 2011
2011/12/9 Carlos Rabassa <carnen at mac.com>:
> I asked, how would you write an application to allow any user to use it by
> clicking on a link? And I gave him a link to the example of the cat.
>
> HTML5 was the answer.
>
> Then I asked, what about Flash?
>
> The answer was that it can be used but is not what he would recommend to use
> today because Flash, after having been great, is now on the way out.
>
> Flash is owned by Adobe and there are rumors they will not support it any
> longer. Adobe came up with Adobe Air. Most new applications are required
> to work with smart phones and tablets; this is the big force pushing Flash
> out and HTML5 in.
>
> He said "free" when referring to HTML5. I don´t know if he meant it
> qualifies as free software.
HTML5 is a set of free and open standards. Yes, you can safely build
free software applications using HTML5.
I have long been arguing that we should be using HTML5 more in Sugar,
and even funded some development towards making it happen [1]. Sugar
Labs are working to make this possible [2].
Sridhar
[1] https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/742
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/WebKit
Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia
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