Thoughts on HTML5, a Flash Developers hopeless rant
My name is Yonny Zohar, I'm a game developer with six years experience. I've worked on several commercial titles including " Bingo Island ", and have recently made the move from flash development to html5. Six years ago, while i was learning flash, i worked simultaneously with html, CSS and js. back then my impression was that flash was simply light years ahead in terms of development ease, code maintenance and error handling. Returning now to html5 six years later, I was very weary - had things improved since 2009? I've spent the last several months hearing from everyone around me that the answer is a definite "YES". I'm here to say- the answer is still a definite NO! Lets begin this rant with my number one hatred - CSS: NO DEBUGGING - Debugging css is awful. you spend days trying to figure out why elements don't behave the way they should. Try adding and removing properties to elements hoping it will make them act the way you want or...
