Microsoft, Adobe See Room for Propriety Technologies Despite HTML5
Microsoft, Adobe See Room for Propriety Technologies Despite HTML5
Posted 03/19/2010 at 5:07pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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It’s often said that HTML5 will take over the web and push out the current mishmash of standards. Microsoft and Adobe would like to respectfully disagree with that. At the recent Open Source Business Conference executives from both companies said they believe the future of the web will include their proprietary formats, Flash and Silverlight.
Microsoft did have nice things to say about HTML5 though. They plan to use the standard in conjunction with their own plug-ins. Adobe too said they’d utilize HTML5, pointing to their web tools space. Of open source in general, both execs agreed that it could be an efficient way to distribute software.
The battle for multimedia delivery is still just getting under way, but plug-ins (especially Flash) have a big head start. Do you think HTML5 will come out on top, or are we looking at a mixture of standards?
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M-ManLA
March 20, 2010 at 10:16pm
It will be mixed, but I think that the technology will be integrated with each other.
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mikeart03a
March 20, 2010 at 7:05am
I'm sitting on the fence on this one as well. It would be nice to have native h.264 vid streaming built into the browser instead of using a chunky flash video converter and player setup, but I don't think anything will replace the interactive portion of flash and silverlight.
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compro01
March 22, 2010 at 3:22am
What exactly can you do with flash that you can't do with HTML, CSS, and javscript?
Neufeldt2002
March 19, 2010 at 5:56pm
Sadly, I believe that it will be a mixture. There are too many companies that think that propriatary is the only way to go.
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