HTML 5?

tomot · 11 Apr 2012, 00:42

There is lots of buzz about Flash being on its way out. To be replaced with HTML5. Apparently Steve Jobs' decision not to include Flash on the Iphone has become more than just a threat supported by the fact that Iphones clearly are becoming a large part of the market. I'm curious how SketchUP is going to proceed going forward in light of the increased use of both Android and Iphone tablets at the job site and how the SU drawing information will get transferred via these WIFI devices?

Gaieus · 11 Apr 2012, 05:10

Well, html5 can display vector graphics (svg ) but until every browser and device becomes html5 compliant in every possible respect (especially that IE 9 is only for Vista and above), I doubt that too much will change in this field.

Aerilius · 11 Apr 2012, 16:19

@gaieus said:

especially that IE 9 is only for Vista and above

Exactly that is a problem. Now we are happy that IE6 is almost extinct and Microsoft's newest browser is nearly standards-compliant, but now Microsoft seems to abuse IE9 to get rid of Windows XP (and that can take long, meaning we still have to support IE8's peculiarities).

Another problem is that Flash has generally been very cross-platform and cross-hardware and Flash or Java work also ok for 3D graphics (some might disagree). On the other side HTML5 WebGL has been designed not to work on older hardware.