Understanding the HTML5 for Flash Developer || Part-2
Understanding the HTML5 for Flash Developer
As a Flash developer, you have probably worked with HTML on a frequent, if not daily, basis as a platform for publishing your compiled Adobe Flash SWF files on the Web. Although web browsers with Flash Player installed can view standalone SWF files, it is normal practice to embed Flash content within an HTML document.
Thanks to the simplistic syntax and availability of HTML, many people who are not even developers have learned traditional HTML development techniques. Unfortunately, early HTML specifications fell short in many areas of displaying content online. Common tasks such as creating rich interactive experiences, sharing multimedia assets, or creating web-based user interfaces to act in a more typical software-like manner became a massive chore, if not impossible. In the recent past, Flash has been the obvious choice when developing and integrating assets such as video and audio playbacks, web-based games, 3D interactive graphics, and inline advertisements. Lately, many of these features on the Web have been remade using HTML5 allowing users to access the content in the same manner, but without the use of technology such as Adobe Flash Player.
The ability to build quality web-based content that can be globally accessible from any device is the key to a successful product or service. Facebook, Google, and Twitter are all using HTML5 to better the user experience of their applications and deliver content to users without the need for third-party plugins. More businesses are saving time, resources, and money during their application development process by utilizing the HTML5 development stack to target not only web browsers on desktop and mobile, but also installable applications on both platforms as well.
Transitioning your Flash development skills to HTML5 is a fun process that will not only open you to more opportunity professionally, but enable you to better analyze what tool is right for the job at hand. Adobe Flash isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but the same can easily be said for HTML5.
Since many developers flock to Flash development from previous web and application development technologies that may have had nothing to do with HTML, let's start by covering the essentials of the HTML5 stack.
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