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A series of internet memes has again sparked another heated debates, first it was the first javascript website showcased in the FWA and later the YouTube- HTML5 integration.
Since the dawn of the internet-era, infinite debates amongst these developer elitists were always inundated the World Wide Web and one of the revered topic is of course who has the better developing platform.
The advent of HTML5 and the mission and vision which it carries is truly spellbinding for the internet community, but if you remember so had actionscript 3 during its inception.
Every technology has its share of flaws.
The impending problem that HTML5 has had to be adaptations and compatibility issues, the browser war will always be diluted by strategic marketing, business goals, and of course ego -which can be dubbed as the company ideology- and never in the interest of the developer.
The first HTML5 conundrum which has begun is the new video which its support is limited to web browsers that support the H.264 video codec mainly because W3C declined to specify a standard video codec to go along with new video element and you can guess it, IE deviates the notion completely and this just the beginning of other impediments which will come along.
Flash, as I’ve had mentioned its flaws and the prevalent hate memes such as the CPU hogger, the battery drainer, etc which all is true, and of course the choreographed demo of Flash player 10.1 in Nexus, was mainly caused by Adobe complacent and other aspect which mainly had to be the economy, the decrescendo of demand in Flash during this post-recession period has been abysmally loud (a bit of oxymoron there) and based on my experience, building a good Flash site needs a bit of an investment in time and money as oppose as HTML/JS sites, hence unless if it’s a niche market such as social-game company, almost nobody dares to invest such luxury or even has the needs that requires Flash to fulfill their business objective, except for that annoying ad banners which I mostly am doing now 
.
But from the Technology stand point, Flash I think can still accomplish, and I’m not trying to be subjective here, something that is better than what HTML/JS does, a few sites worth mentioning are:
http://sketch.odopod.com/
http://www.picnik.com/app
I dare you to build something like that with HTML/JS, but again I’m not trying to devalue HTML/JS here, check out google, digg, etc.
But in conclusion these ridiculous dialogs are unfounded, history has repeatedly shown us that technology is merely a tool, a transient breeze that bound to be superseded by a better and in-your-face contender ergo we shouldn’t be trying to be a platform zealots, I’ve been experimenting with Unity3D, Cocoa, Jquery and of course Flash, I think exploring new Technology is the beauty of this keyboard-cat and Rick’n Roll’d era.
As an epilogue I will depart from this post by paraphrasing some guy with a weird hairdo who invented the theory of relativity:
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
The first time I saw this, I’ve never thought that it was a CGI, the whole atmosphere had been flawlessly executed, the models, the textures, and the lightings were perfect.
Kudos for Alex Roman for his unprecedented work, may god bless mediocre achiever like me.
The Footage:
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
Compositing breakdown:
Compositing Breakdown (T&S) from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
I’ve got a new hobby now! take a look and let me know what you think,
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And I also am trying to build a flash gallery for it, that pulls the entire picasa collection, bundle it up, and displays the images in one flashy goodness.
hopefully it’ll be done before this end of January 2010.
It seems the sky is truly the limit with iPhone, after the surreal augmented reality application, now another one has emerges, although this is not actually an apps but the result is mind blowing nevertheless.
The Mill, which unfortunately I couldn’t find out exactly who they are, had concocted a custom 3D motion trackers which utilizes nothing but the goodness of iPhone capabilities.
watch this first:
and a brief description:
via ProVideo.
Determining the perfect balance between performance and quality was a very tedious experience for me and I was flabbergasted since hours of digging through google I realized that no one has ever documented the mantra (or maybe I was googling at a different direction).
After a few grueling days of publishing, remodeling the 3D (which wasn’t done by me thankfully), sending yet another dubious budget proposal to the client, and watching jagged 3D object floating on my computer screen, I’ve discovered a poly count between 2000 to 5000 has the most perfect mixture between quality and performance, yes the possibilities of adding more polys is feasible but considering that people (especially in the middle east region) mostly owns a mid-range computer platform, this is the most sensible approach.
It’s finally here! but the video is unrelated with launch though. Google Chrome OS has sparks so many controversy but what do you expect it’s Google.
“I think they were being sarcastic when they named it Flash…”
That sentence was spoken by my non-Flash friend, even though he was obviously just making a joke by taking the context out of no where, deep down I was nodding in agreement.
Lately Flash has been slandered by the internet community due to its reputation as the CPU hogger, from twitter across the land of digg, they shout in unison but now a sliver of light has finally shines upon our dark caves as we cower in the face of uncertainty.
Flash finally utilizes the GPU acceleration, NVDIA and Broadcom has team up together to come up with an improvement for everything from Tegra Mids to Broadcom Crystal HD netbooks which has been confirmed by Broadcom that this flashy Flash Player will be available in the first half of 2010 but of course for a Flash Developer a month is regarded as a decade.
Throughout the years Flash has gain an enormous followers who were willing to do everything for the prosperity and the longevity of Flash and almost everybody from the Flash community has been begging adobe to create a faster player but instead they’re more keen to create inane features that were only used by the CSI team and in the dawn of fierce competition from HTML5 and super fast player like Unity3D more and more people are turning away from Flash and heading to a more greener pasture.
I think Flash has to realize that it cannot remain complacence anymore and start fighting if they want to keep themselves on the top.
via Engadget.
If you have been living on the moon and just recently got bombed, you probably haven’t heard the infinite rumors of Flash versus iPhone.
But now the perplexity has finally been answered, a few weeks ago Adobe has presented a demo of Flash Professional CS5 with a native iPhone apps builder!
In a nutshell, what Flash does is compiles the AS3 encoding into native ARM format which can be deciphered by an iPhone, here’s the step by step of the procedure in case you don’t have the time to watch the video:
ABC Extraction & Compilation
AS code is pulled out and compiled by LLVM.
Optimization
LLVM’s global optimizer looks for efficiencies.
Linking
Native ARM version of app linked against iPhone libraries.
Signing
App signed with dev certificate.
Packaging
App and assets placed in an APP bundle then zipped to IPA.
Albeit it has a few imperfections which Flash shares, but I have to admit this is one of the most orgasmic feature that Flash has ever unleashed.
So hopefully as the momentum of the Open Screen Project continues to swing, it will allowes Adobe to keep moving forward and more importantly keeps their humble aficionados, such as myself 
, earning more living.
UPDATE apparently no matter what adobe does apple simply won’t let them in, so forget everything I’ve said above.