Anthony Calzadilla has recreated an animated Star Wars AT-AT Walker purely with CSS3. Hopefully we’ll start to see things like this being integrated into games that run purely in the browser.
I can’t figure out if I’m excited for new technologies like HTML5 video and CSS3, or worried that a company like Apple can just decide what we are (and aren’t) going to be using in the future by incorporating (or not incorporating) elements into their new products. It seems an awful lot like their personal beef with companies like Adobe is unjustifiably informing their strategies. Jobs says the flash is buggy. Does anyone else actually think so? Flash may bug out from time to time, but I would say I relaunch Finder more times than I restart my browser due to a flash crash.
As someone who makes my living working on powerful, customizable machines (especially Apples), their new direction of Apple and the iPad induces some serious worry for me.
BRB, creating a Final Cut Pro that will run on Linux.
Companies like Apple have always held sway over what we will and won’t be using. The recent Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war is a pretty good example of how technological merits often play no role in determining what tech gets adopted.
As for this “new direction of Apple”, I think you’d be hard-pressed to name another company that’s placed more emphasis on vertically integrating its product lines since 1998.
And yes, Flash is indeed a buggy, resource-chomping mess. I think if you spent more time in the browser and less time doing heavy lifting in FCP, your Flash-crash/Finder relaunch ratio would be about 10:1.
That said, I don’t think Flash is going anywhere just because Apple and Adobe have had such an acrimonious divorce. Flash is just too good as a pacifier.
