Re:Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
by nanairo on Friday August 20, 2010 @06:13AM
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Oh dear... on paper great, but can you imagine how long it would have taken them to come to a standard? I think HTML5 is already a bit on the side of being a step too wide, but I guess we've been stuck in HTML4 (and related technologies) for so long that it was necessary. XHTML 2 was an awesome language, imho... just another case of too much meat on the fire, and so never reaching a conclusion.
Let's get a good HTML5 system now, and then we can think of adding additional scripting languages. The best is the enemy of the good. :)
Re:Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
by loewenskind on Friday August 20, 2010 @09:43AM
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>Oh dear... on paper great, but can you imagine how long it would have taken them to come to a standard?
I don't think it would have to take too long. One browser could do it and then the others could copy it. Further, the standard could be general until it's worked out more.
What should have happened is that they just define a (high level) VM that we can all compile to. The browsers could have certain languages they compile to this VM language their self (e.g. JavaScribt, VBScript, etc.) and the rest of us compile to a binary file and point to that in our HTML page (e.g. <code type="vm" location="code/main.hvm"/>)