Well, HTML5 browser support is still limited to the geek-cred
browsers: Safari (and all the other WebKit browsers like Chrome) and
Firefox (and all the other browsers that use the Gecko rendering
engine, like Camino).
That said, the idea behind HTML5 is to remove reliance on proprietary
plug-ins, and do as much as possible directly within the browser using
public (free) APIs like CSS3 and JavaScript. This is a Very Good
Thing, in my opinion. Nobody wants to have the virtual rug pulled out
from under; if Adobe changes their mind about something critical
within Flash, you have no way to fix that, since the source is closed.
There are lots of ways to skin the page-turn cat. I did a version of
this in Freeway with the Scriptaculous library. It’s pretty crude as
such things go, but it does work, and doesn’t rely on anything special
to work in all major browsers (IE6+, Safari 2+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+,
or equivalent clone versions).
This demo shows images flipping, and with a little work, it would also
work for HTML “pages”, too.
http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/flip
Walter
On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Joe Hankin wrote:
Hi Quick question please - I am about to buy some software that I
can import press-ready PDF files and it will output a flash file
that will give me a ‘turning pages’ catalogue, brochure etc that I
can upload to a website. I have seen one or two comments about flash
being old hat and maybe replaced in the future with HTML5?
Would I be better looking for some software that would generate
HTML5 files from PDF files rather than flash or is this only an
issue with video content?
Many thanks.
Joe
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