The death of Flash and the future of HTML 5 with WebDNA

The Future of Web Content HTML5, Flash, WebDNA & Mobile Apps

The Death of Flash?

Slate magazine posted an article recently saying that the new iPad may kill Flash, pointing out that if the new iPad doesn't support Flash, web surfers will find it incredibly difficult to view online video on many websites, like, say, the New York Times.

Steve Jobs, for his part, has said that Flash is buggy, and that Adobe is lazy. He said that in the future, no one will use Flash, and that the world is moving towards HTML 5.

Other complaints about Flash are that it's difficult to modify, slow, and concentrates too much power into Adobe's hands, and many say it's bad for search engine optimization, since Google has problems crawling Flash.

The Growth of HTML 5

So what exactly is HTML 5, and why are so many people talking about it? HTML 5 is, essentially, the next version of HTML, which is the language in which the internet is written. Its aim is to actually reduce the need for plug-in technologies, including, of course, Flash.

Today's HTML does not support audio or video, but HTML 5 does. This means that once it becomes the web standard, we won't need plug-ins like Flash in order to view the media contained on a given web page.

WebDNA and HTML 5

WebDNA can fully interact with HTML 5. As a matter of fact, HTML 5 rich content solution becomes 100% dynamic using WebDNA, without any need for a plugin: HTML 5 svg graphics, ajax functions, CSS descriptions, XML specifications can be stored into ultrafast WebDNA databases and hacked in any way you want...