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Top 5 reasons to ditch Flash and embrace HTML5/CSS3 now

Filed under: web — Tags: , , , , , , , — June 10, 2010

1. HTML5 & CSS3 standards are open so you don’t rely on the whims of one company.

2. Big websites like YouTube are already getting into the game (check out YouTube HTML5 Video Player) so you can bet the demand for HTML5 skills is going to rise.

3. You don’t need to buy a proprietary software so you can easily code HTML5 & CSS3 on your laptop, your roommate’s computer and your mum’s computer.

4. The iPad doesn’t support Flash. While you might disagree with Apple’s choice, this is the choice they made and the iPad is going to foster a new range of interactive websites – all those made with HTML5 and CSS3. Do you want in or do you want out?

5. The current big battle is Google vs Apple (Microsoft seems to have lost the race). They are both committed to HTML5 so even if one wins and the other one gets swallowed up, HTML5 will still be supported.

Disagree? Write a “Top 5 reasons to stick to Flash” and I’ll link to it here ;-)

Programming and web development tools – too much reliance on Google?

Filed under: programming — Tags: , , , , , , , , — April 11, 2010

Over the least couple of years, the rise of Google in the field of programming and web development tools has been quite spectacular.

Google Android is gaining ground in the smart mobile phone market, Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit are helping Java and Python programmers develop web apps, Google has established its annual conference Google I/O as the conference all programmers should attend (sadly, I cannot but I would dearly like to), not to mention the success of its Google Maps API and many other tools available for programmers.

Like many other programmers, I am very excited about their tools but I can’t help asking myself: do we rely too much on Google? Only the future will tell but I fear that despite all of Google’s official good intentions, its real aim is to create a market monopoly that Microsoft can only dream of – and then, it will be able to bleed all programmers and users dry.