Speaking of Flash vs HTML5...( was RE: RE: Most innovative user doc output

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Nancy Allison wrote:
[...]
 
 
> -- Innovative technology: Interactivity with user, intelligently
> applied multi-media (Flash things you actually want to use, for
> example, instead of being dreaded time-wasters).


My sense was that Flash will be around a while longer, but 
that it's officially past its best-before date and in decline. 
Apple wins that argument...

I also understand that HTML5 has pretty-much arrived 
as the successor... except in the sense of wide-spread 
use, but that's growing as we speak. 

Can somebody who has produced Flash output (whether 
for your employer's documentation or for your own 
website/blog), and who is now creating equivalent 
material via HTML5, please give us the thousand-foot 
comparison?  (Note, that's not the 20,000-foot view, 
which is too removed to be helpful, and not the 5-foot 
view which is too nitty-gritty for current need.) 

I'm thinking of examples like "to produce this effect 
in Flash, I used to do xyz, and now I generate pretty 
much the equivalent in HTML5 using the zyx tags, 
commands, structures..." 

For another example, what sort of tool would you 
use to create a one-minute "Flash animation"... except 
not Flash... but an equivalent HTML5 animation instead?? 

Readers of your docs/site/blog who wanted to view 
the Flash video needed to download a plug-in. Do 
they need to do the same for your new one, or is 
the capability native to any modern browser that 
supports HTML5? 

 - k

(If that's too vague, just wing it...  :-)  )


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