Wallaby’s design goal was not to produce final form HTML ready for deployment to web pages.

Don’t expect the end results to be ready-to-go. Wallaby’s conversion capabilities are clearly very limited, but that’s not all. The focus for this initial version of Wallaby is to do the best job possible of converting typical banner ads to HTML5. To understand why, you need to dig a little deeper and see what Flash-to-HTML5 conversion really involves in practice. I’m sure that this is exactly how it will be seen and presented by many – “don’t worry that the iPad doesn’t support Flash, you just don’t need it nowadays, everyone’s agreed that it’s much better to do it in the browser rather than the player, in fact even Adobe has given up on it now and has built its own Flash-to-HTML5 converter”.Īny such talk is misguided, misleading and dangerous. So is Wallaby a bridge from the old days of Flash and player-based development to the promised land of HTML5 and truly rich browser-based development? Was Steve Jobs right after all? After all, if you can deliver Flash functionality in the browser via HTML5 why shouldn’t you? Especially so now, when there’s one overwhelming reason why you need to: if you want to access the full web audience, including the crucial iPhone/iPad demographic walled up in Steve Jobs’ closed kingdom, there’s simply no alternative. At first sight it looks like Adobe has done just this and that Steve Jobs has won the argument.

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