Our Space: Programming Interactive-Animated Content for the Web

Macromedia Flash

Period: Jul 2, 1996 to Jul 4, 2004

Releases 8 new versions, each more advanced than the last, ains popularity on the web.

Professionals Creating Flash; Dominates the web

Period: Jul 2, 2002 to Jul 2, 2011

Bottom Line: Programming Interactive-Animated Web Content Was Almost Exclusively For Professionals.
Purchase and download Adobe expensive software for PC/Mac
Required some coding (“actionscript”)
Knowledge required to export your Flash code/project file and embed it where you want on the web.

• Actionscript, Flex, AIR, Shockwave.

Flash (95% browsers) dominates over Java (73%) & Microsoft Silverlight (68%)

Adobe Acquires Macromedia

Apr 18, 2005

Programming with Touch Interface

Jun 2, 2011

Nov 9th, 2011: Adobe abandons mobile Flash, backs HTML5, tools start to come out to serve the "switch" to HTML5

Nov 9, 2011

TechCrunch: “Microsoft Agrees With Apple And Google: “The Future Of The Web Is HTML5“ HTML5: 100% compatible with all modern browsers and mobile devices (no plugin required... HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT)
HTML5 TOOLS:
“what’s new?”
HTML5
do a lot more without programming
Adobe Creative Cloud
access work from different PCs/Macs (no evidence of being a mobile friendly framework)
push changes automatically anywhere
“sharing and collaboration”
“what’s the same?”
download the WYSIWYG framework for PC/Mac

Projection Mapping

Apr 2, 2012

Programming with Kinect

Sep 2, 2013

The Massive Socialization of Creating Interactive-Animated Content

Period: Jul 2, 2014 to Jul 2, 2035

The bulk of the socialization of interactive-animation app creation happens