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A shader, according to the official proposal filed with the W3C in late October, is "essentially a small program that provides a particular effect (such as a distortion, a blur, or a twirl effect) and whose behavior is controlled with input parameters (such as the amount of distortion, blur, or twirl)." Shaders are useful in the context of animated transitions and complement specifications such as CSS animations, CSS transitions, and SVG animations. CSS regions enable building of complex, magazine-like CSS layouts, Adobe says.
Flash still has support
Despite Adobe's HTML5 strategy, Flash is not going away, argues the developer Ruskoff: "Any of the fanboys that say, 'Flash
is dead, HTML5 rules,' you know they're speaking without knowledge of the real world." HTML5, he notes, has not even been
ratified, despite its adoption in draft form in every major desktop and mobile browser.
JavaScript represents the biggest gap in the HTML5 realm, says Tom Bray, a developer at Ace Metrics, which offers an on-demand Adobe Flex-based application for advertisers to gauge effectiveness of TV ads. That's why he prefers using Flash: "[Flash's] ActionScript is a beautiful language, based on the same standard as JavaScript ... ActionScript 3 is much more mature object-oriented programming language, and that is the one thing that enterprise developers who love Flex really want to see survive."
Adobe's Trani also cites a niche for Flash, such as 3D capabilities and game development.
For Adobe, moving to HTML5 while still keeping Flash around makes sense -- after all, it can sell tools to both audiences. Over time, though, it appears a certainty that HTML5 will grow while Flash will fade.
This story, "Adobe's no-choice embrace of HTML5," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in programming at InfoWorld.com. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.