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Native browser support for HTML5 has advanced rapidly in the past year with everyone keen to push forward with new features (even Microsoft, to their credit, are actively pushing to get rid of IE6 and force users to upgrade to the latest version).

Unfortunately app formats seem to be going the other way and I have found a great article that you may find interesting.   It points towards something of an app arms-race similar to the browser one-upmanship we had about 10 years ago, in which app development becomes fragmented. 

From personal experience it is clear that Flash and ActionScript are not yet dead and buried, despite rumours to the contrary. As annoying as Flash is from an SEO point of view it is still the best, and in many cases the only realistic way of delivering rich media content cross-browser. Swiffy and similar SWF to HTML5 converters are working to bridge the gap between the plug-in and open Web but from experience there’s still a long way to go (filesize and performance issues abound).

This informative and insightful article from .net is definitely worth a read and personally I’m looking forward to the design/dev challenges that 2012 will have to offer.  Let us know what you think...

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