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RE: xkcd
By B3an on 7/26/2011 6:41:14 PM , Rating: 2
I'm so sick of HTML5 BS. It's highly overrated and will never even replace Flash content. Infact using Adobe AIR, which is basically Flash in app form would even be more usable.

But most of all HTML5 is such a ridiculously inefficient way to make an app.
Unlike other languages where you can just use one efficient, powerful and elegant language to make an app, with HTML5 you have to use a whole bunch of cr*p - CSS, JS, HTML, XML, PHP... and just hope it all works together remotely well.
Imagine also adding other stuff like WebGL to that. What a nightmare that would be.

I'm in the business of web design and dont know a single person who is great at all these languages or can even code more than 3 or 4 of them really well.
So forget any small dev's making anything remotely good for this OS. If you think Android has tons of cheap gimmicky apps just wait until this OS starts getting "apps", not only will they perform like total sh*t they will be highly limited in capabilities and probably very buggy. It will also drain the battery faster with all the totally unnecessary possessing from all the inefficiencies.

WTF Mozilla, just W.T.F.

RE: xkcd
By SilthDraeth on 7/26/2011 8:04:53 PM , Rating: 2
There are some pretty nice looking games that run in browsers completely. ie quakelive.

I am sure it will be possible to do any number of things in the browser if one can make a 3d first person shooter run smoothly in the browser.

RE: xkcd
By Targon on 7/27/2011 10:47:02 AM , Rating: 2
Are those games written in HTML 5, or are they Flash applications via a web page? The point is that HTML 5 is clearly a good way to take care of some stuff, like animated banner advertisements and such, but more complicated apps/games may remain Flash based. There IS room for both, unless you are Apple and want to force everyone to go through the Apple App Store.

