2010 Year-End Review
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Construction site's sign
2010 was the year the Flash platform died, replaced by the fifth revision of the HTML standard. Or so I am told. That was a great debate/flame war and we are all very happy that html finally caught up to Flash 8. Enough said.
But under that blanket of ignorance fueled hatred for Flash rose the true winner: the age of UX. The web has become the front line of User Experience. Many of the websites we use reflect this trend: Experience over Features (read/watch/follow Aral Balkan for more). Previously reserved for Flash, sophisticated layouts, animations and effects are now possible using CSS, JS and HTML and render properly in most modern browsers.