Does HTML 5 Make “Rich vs. Reach” a False Choice?
May 20th, 2010
[...] Maybe Adobe is bowing to pressure from ardent Web professionals like Scott Kellum, Lead Designer at Channel V Media, a digital and offline branding firm, serving the media and marketing sectors, among others. Kellum told me that HTML 5 “...will definitely move people away from Flash. It has many of the same functionalities with faster load times and better accessibility. HTML5 will help Flash as well: with the new caching methods you can now even run Flash apps offline.” Razorfish’s Scafidi, on the other hand, believes “on the platforms that support both [Flash and HTML 5] it will be the best technology that meets the business needs that will prevail.”
Although all three Web developers I interviewed would agree that Flash is still required for more sophisticated applications, Kellum seems to have put his finger on why HTML 5 may nonetheless dominate.
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