I have to agree. Would anyone be impressed if I did this in ObjC / CoreAnimation? It would be simple enough.
Posts like this remind me of the old "year of the Linux desktop" crowd: People demonstrating how Linux can (often poorly) do the baseline simple things that other operating systems have been doing for years or decades.
Meanwhile, those other desktop operating systems were leapfrogging ahead.
>Meanwhile, those other desktop operating systems were leapfrogging ahead.
I think this is quite fitting for how Flash is developing out of the spotlight now as well. I think that the Flash exodus - if it will mean less designers doing ridiculously processor intensive banners - ultimately is beneficial for the future of the technology itself.
Yeah, the only difference being that every company besides Adobe is choosing this as the new web standard -- instead of doing what they should do, which is writing browsers compatible with ECMA-4/5 standards, and making either AS3 or JS2 built in with a genuine screen graph so animations don't have to be tied to this absurd 1994-era DOM for the next decade or longer. Short of that, they should allow any and all plugins necessary to run what users want to run, and stop their campaign of demonizing Flash. I realize Apple's made millions off breakout games that people downloaded because they were blocked from playing the free versions in Safari, and I don't blame them for being Machiavellian about it, but I also don't see a reason to feed the beast by pretending everything's hunky-dory with the ramshackle decaying non-cross-platform crap they've left developers to work with in the webkit/HTML5 stack.
Posts like this remind me of the old "year of the Linux desktop" crowd: People demonstrating how Linux can (often poorly) do the baseline simple things that other operating systems have been doing for years or decades.
Meanwhile, those other desktop operating systems were leapfrogging ahead.