Recently Steve Jobs started a war against my favorite browser plugin, Adobe Flash. This is my talk on the Apple situation, and then an open look at HTML5 and some of the great new features in Adobe AIR2. Bottom line, technology is a tool, and it's up to you to know your problem so that you can choose the appropriate tool for the job.

1. Screw HTML5 make
cool shit with AIR
by Eric Fickes

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

3. Eric Fickes
Caught the bug in 1997 when I learned HTML

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

5. 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

6. Flash is #1 MAC crasher?

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

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

9. 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

10. HTML5 does video

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

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

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

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

15. If you are upper management

16. Don’t be controlled by AppStore figures

17. If you manage developers

18. Know your problem
before committing to a tool

19. If you’re a developer

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

21. If you WANT to develop

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

23. HTML5
back from the dead?

24. HTML5
it’s more like this

25. 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

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

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

28. 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

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

30. AIR
AIR, My favorite part of the Flash platform

31. 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

32. 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

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

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

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. What is cool shit?

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

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

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