: eLearning Technology
Garin Hess wrote a post 5 Reasons Flash is NOT dying...give me a break! and it seems like my recent post Mobile Learning and the Continuing Death of Flash got him a little fired up.
I am fed up with people saying Flash is dying. That it's old technology. That HTML5 is the ultimate replacement. That it shouldn't be allowed to go forward. Come on! Give me a break!
Garin has some good arguments on why he likes Flash as a delivery mechanism. Probably worth visiting his blog to read them.
Let me go back to the original issue that I raised a little less than a year ago in Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash:
As a Part-Time CTO, I am continually making choices about what platforms to use, what do we build for, how do we integrate with social networks, etc. And just like a few years ago when it became clear that you shouldn’t build desktop applications anymore, I think we are hitting a tipping point where you have to question building anything that uses Flash as the delivery mechanism.
I'm defining my technical approach for my eLearning Startup or for my application that will be delivered to employees, consumers or students, etc. This could be a new authoring tool, an aggregator, the course playback mechanism, a recruiting tool, etc. My technical choice needs to seem like a good choice 5 years from now. I need to think about what will produce the best user experience. The costs. Technical and business risk.
Garin raises a great point. We don't know whether Apple iOS will eventually support Flash to stave off competition from competitors. Originally, I thought that Apple would bow to pressure. No one at this point really knows. But let's assume for a second that you believe that Apple will cave and iOS will support Flash. And let's also assume that we are not strictly talking HTML5, but rather HTML
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