Flash vs html5 pong fight!

Posted on November 2, 2010 by IdeaMonster

All of those comparisons between html5 and flash could give anybody but batman a headache. Good to know that someone with a sense of humor decided to make their clash a bit more “fun” than numbers, predictions and angry “thoughts on flash”. As with every technology, things have their advantages and disadvantages. And true, HTML5 is better battery-to-performance-wise, but Flash has some pretty cool tricks up it’s sleeve too. And even if the web moves away from flash video completely (which it has started to do) there will still be plenty of use for flash – gaming, “creative” showcase type websites and cartoons for which it is perfect.

The cool people at Code Computerlove decided to make a pong game (for two players) that uses FLASH to render one side of the table, and HTML5 to render the other. And they work together in harmony. Maybe it’s a hint towards the future? Huh, Steve?

You can check out the game and play it here. Enjoy!

The web is moving away from Flash

Posted on October 27, 2010 by IdeaMonster

Many people were skeptical at first about the Flash VS html5 war, but it seems like HTML5 has already won, as after 6 months from apple’s decision to ban flash, HTML5 has now over half of the online video. Which leads to a simple conclusion, that in a year we won’t be seeing flash all that often. Maybe it’s start to learn some new tools?

Apple – Adobe war has ended in a retreat

Posted on April 25, 2010 by IdeaMonster

Adobe announced a few days ago that they’ll discontinue supporting the iphone OS in flash and other products. Sure that was a battle they couldn’t win but in a way it’s pretty sad we’ll be limited to a closed platform. But maybe it’s good for the quality control, since a flash app is pretty easy to make so there would be millions of new “fart apps” and we have plenty of those already right?

So while it’s sad that adobe skips the iphone, I think it might be for the best here. Let’s just hope they won’t get mad and stop making the Creative Suite for the mac, because now that’d suck ;)

HTML5 – is the end of Flash near?

Posted on April 9, 2010 by IdeaMonster

flashvshtml5

HERE is an awesome demonstration of HTML5 capabilities. This including the online video streaming and better power / resources usage might just be the thing to tip adobe flash over the edge and into obscurity. Let’s see what they respond with, but it seems like HTML5 is the future standard. Too bad 3/4 of people still use IE6 and will be unable to see it. So is Adobe counting on people staying with IE6? Probably so ;)

Flash gradient mask / reflection tutorial using actionscript 2.0

Posted on February 19, 2010 by IdeaMonster

Ok, you’ve probably always wondered, why photoshop and other apps (like pixelmator for example) allow you to use gradient masks and Flash doesn’t? You probably blamed it on some vector mambo-jumbo and decided to live with it somehow. Well that’s not needed anymore, because with some clever techniques we can achieve this effect in Flash from version 8 and up. It works in actionscript 2.0, but it should be easy to achieve in 3.0 as well. This is a simple, quick effect that we can make having a basketball and it’s reflection underneath. What’s cool is that you can also animate the mask so the ball will bounce for example.
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Is it the end of Flash online?

Posted on February 3, 2010 by IdeaMonster

It seems like Apple is trying to kill Flash in it’s mobile devices, and looking at the percentages it seems almost as if flash already IS dying on the web. But the truth is, apple selling millions of those portable devices changed the scales a little bit. But do we really miss flash ? Bloated, slow and cpu heavy websites? Well sometimes they’re a must, like in web games, animation, cartoons, children games etc. But in many, many cases the initial overexposure of flash it slowly starts disappearing from many sites in which it was used as an addition. Sure there are those big, in-site banners communicating stuff and that sometimes is still useful, but sites totally in flash? Nope, thanks. They’re sluggish, with poor text support and weird anti-aliasing. So yeah, maybe it should just be limited to those cartoonish-game things and stay out of serious sites. And then maybe adobe would get off the couch and do some work on a plugin that works well on a mac. The windows version of the flash plugin is very stable and reliable, can’t be said about the same thing they made for the mac tho. Will Flash go away? Tell us what you think.