Screw HTML5, make cool shit with AIR

Screw HTML5 make cool shit with AIR by Eric Fickes

Screw HTML5..... No, do not screw HTML5

Eric Fickes Caught the bug in 1997 when I learned HTML

What’s on tap? • Apple • HTML5 • AIR • Demo

Apple • Flash is #1 reason MACs crash • Flash doesn’t do touch devices • No one will be using Flash • HTML5 does video • The world is moving to HTML5

Flash is #1 MAC crasher?

Flash doesn’t do touch devices Flash does do touch, just ask Lee Brimelow

No one will be using Flash http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/ﬂashplayer/

Seems like I’ve heard this before "Java's not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It's this big heavyweight ball and chain." - Steve Jobs 2007

HTML5 does video

HTML5 does video • OGG is open • H.264 is licensed • EG : Firefox doesn’t support H.264 • hope you like mime types

The world is moving to HTML5 • duh, it’s the next version • ﬂash / html / lincoln logs • the world doesn’t care

iControl • Apple wants you on their runtime ( webkit ) • Not Flash • Not Java • But we’re cool again?

So you’re saying skip HTML5? no, but it depends

If you are upper management

Don’t be controlled by AppStore ﬁgures

If you manage developers

Know your problem before committing to a tool

If you’re a developer

Learn it, don’t avoid it • Read diveintohtml5.org • Play with html5rocks.com • Learn FABridge ( HTML5 + Flash )

If you WANT to develop

HTML & FLEX • Fire up [text editor] and make HTML • Download Flex SDK and try it out www.adobe.com/products/ﬂex/

HTML5 back from the dead?

HTML5 it’s more like this

When can I use HTML5? “You can use some of them now. Others might take a few more years to get widely implemented.” - http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#When_will_we_be_able_to_start_using_these_new_features.3F

You probably already have it Besides market share, there is no HTML5 police

A few new JS APIs • Web Storage & SQL DB • Web Workers & Notiﬁcations • Drag & Drop • Geolocation

A few new HTML tags • Semantics ( new tags, link relations, microdata ) • Accessibility ( ARIA roles ) • Web Forms 2.0 ( input ﬁelds ) • Multimedia ( Audio, Video tag ) • 2D & 3D drawing ( Canvas, WebGL, SVG ) http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide28

CSS gets updated too! • Typography • Visuals • Transitions, transforms and animations • Previous ﬂash only effects now in CSS

AIR AIR, My favorite part of the Flash platform

What is AIR? • Adobe Integrated Runtime • Cross-platform runtime environment • Your web app is now a desktop app • Make desktop software with your existing Flash / Flex / AJAX skills

Where is AIR? • Desktop ( win, pc, linux ) • Mobile ( Android, iOS, WinMo7* ) • TV ( it’s coming... ) • Make desktop software with your existing Flash / Flex / AJAX skills

AIR - What’s new? • ﬂash.net.dns • AAAARecord, ARecord, MXRecord, PTRRecord, ResourceRecord, SRVRecord

AIR - What’s new? • Local microphone API Record audio locally on your device without the need of a server.

AIR - What’s new? • Mass storage device detection Detect when mass storage devices such as cameras and USB flash memory drives are available to synchronize files such as photos, videos, mp3 files or other files.

AIR - What’s new? • Native document handlers to open document Open popular document types like .pdf, .psd, .doc, .ppt, and .mp3 using the native application associated with that ﬁle.

AIR - What’s new? • Native process APIs Developers can now launch and communicate with native processes using the standard input, output, and error streams. • Using the Native Process API, it is now possible to communicate with native libraries built using Java and .NET and also native applications such as "grep" for ﬁle searching.

What is cool shit?

This is pure HTML5, works “everywhere”, and it’s cool shit

DEMO - AIR • Mr.T • Who is this? • USB • Logger • Say it

THANK YOU • work@ericfickes.com • @ericfickes • http://delicious.com/ericfickes/360FlexDCLinks/

Screw HTML5, make cool shit with AIR

by Eric Fickes on Sep 22, 2010

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