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Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5?

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In article <mb2s96$rkk$1@dont-email.me>, Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org>
wrote:
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, but the details of using and dumping Flash is just 
> something I'm not familiar with. I'm trying to help a small non-profit 
> dump Flash from their website. Is it as simple as just doing a 'Save As 
> HTML5' in your website construction app? What if the webpage has a 
> Flash-based video? Does it have to be somehow 'translated' to HTML5 
> independently?

That depends on what software you're using to create Flash and website
content, and what the Flash content is being used for. Some Adobe
applications can Save As / Export Flash content as HTML5 and there are
some websites that claim to be able to convert between the two ... how
successful either of those does will depend on how complicated the
Flash content is.



> Also, there have been assertions/discussions that HTML5 will do 
> _virtually_ everything Flash will do except some very high-end, rarified 
> operations. Could someone tell me exactly what these operations are so I 
> can say to an organization 'oh, you're not doing that so Flash isn't 
> needed'. Thanks very much for your help.

Hmmm ... things that HTML5 can't do that Flash can do ... it can't
gobble up huge amounts of RAM, it can't leak RAM like a sieve, it can't
crash for no reason, it isn't as buggy or [reportedly] as complicated
to develop content in, it can't be as easily infected by malware, it's
not wholy owned by one greedy corporate, ...   ;-)

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? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-02-06 12:06 -0500
  Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-06 10:04 -0800
  Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-02-07 14:26 +1300
    Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-02-06 20:46 -0800
      Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-02-07 18:12 +1300
        Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-02-07 06:17 -0800
          Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-02-07 10:16 -0500
            Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-02-07 10:32 -0800
            Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-07 19:40 +0000
            Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-02-08 09:33 +1300
              Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-07 13:29 -0800
                Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-07 22:37 +0000
          Re: ? Replacing Flash with HTML5? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-07 15:56 +0000

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