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<channel><title><![CDATA[ActionScript.org Flash, Flex and ActionScript Resources - Comments for article: Macromedia Director MX 2004 now available]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources</link><description /><language>en-us</language><copyright><![CDATA[http://www.actionscript.org/resources]]></copyright><generator>N/A</generator><webMaster>general.redirect@gmail.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 19:50:32 CDT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #1]]></title><link>http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/349/1/Macromedia-Director-MX-2004-now-available/Page1.html#Comment16793</link><description><![CDATA[The biggest enemy for HTML5 is not Flash, it's the bwroser. HTML5 will suffer greatly over the next 5 years while it patiently waits for people to upgrade their bwrosers. Right now the HTML5 non-capable bwroser share is IE6, IE7, IE8 for 47.89% | Firefox 3 for 3.80% | Firefox 2 for 1.31% | Opera 10 for 1.42% all of which totals: 54.42% of the global bwroser population that cannot utilize HTML5. The share of HTML5 capable bwrosers is still a minority in Firefox 3.6 for 15.66% | Firefox 3.5 for 11.46% | Safari 4 for 5.09% | Chrome 4 for 6.46% which totals to 38.67%.The historical numbers and updating patterns show that people are  very slow  to upgrade their bwrosers and because of that, HTML5 will be slow in its deployment from developers. Even when IE9 eventually comes out it will take years for people to upgrade their bwrosers to it and HTML5 needs the 47.89% IE group to upgrade to IE9. The problem is this, even though IE8 was released in March 19, 2009 (still a solid year later) only 24.67% of the global bwroser share is owned by IE8. And 23.22% still use IE7 and IE6, which were released almost 4 years ago on October 18, 2006 and almost 9 years ago on August 27, 2001 respectively. So because HTML5 is solely dependent upon people upgrading their bwrosers, it will literally take another 5-6 years before developers will have enough of an HTML5 capable, bwroser share before they can really start coding for it. And five years from now the Web and Flash will have grown into something entirely new! At the moment there is not a single HTML5 web site that can even  half way  compare to the functionality of a Flash site and being able to play simple video and audio is hardly anything to shout about. The problem is that professional developers are not going to deploy HTML5 code when less than half of the bwroser population can't even see or utilize it. Scream all you want about HTML5 being the future or even a Flash killer, but the future will demonstrate that the speed of HTML5 to the game will be too little too late.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Fatima at 7:29 pm, Mon 12th Mar 2012)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Fatima)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:29:58 CDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/349/1/Macromedia-Director-MX-2004-now-available/Page1.html#Comment16793</guid></item></channel></rss>