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Re:HTML 5, are Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX in trouble? by mikeryan on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @12:50AM (#680296)
Why AIR - the desktop runtime?

Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX are the right competing technologies.

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Re:HTML 5, are Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX in trouble? by 10ren on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @01:41AM (#680353)
The category is Rich Internet Applications.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX

I'm not just being pedantic, it's that HTML5 is for the browser (not the desktop) and not particularly connected to the server-side (IIUC). However, HTML5 is competing with Flash, and the browser-based client-side aspect of the others.

But I don't claim to be an expert on HTML5, and checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html5#New_APIs it has "Offline storage database", which is one of the key points for RIA.

That's my reasoning. Now your turn: why do you think Flash is the right competing technology?

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Re:HTML 5, are Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX in trouble? by mikeryan on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @09:03AM (#680693)
HTML5, Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX are all technologies for building apps that run (primarily) in a browser.

AIR isn't one of these, its a wrapper for deploying applications based on Flash or HTML/Javascript as desktop apps.

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Re:HTML 5, are Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX in trouble? by 10ren on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @09:28PM (#681935)
I thought the main point was that they run as internet-enabled desktop apps. I guess it's debatable how central that is.
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