{"id":248,"date":"2010-10-01T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-02-14T22:16:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:16:41","slug":"mythbusting-html-5-did-not-kill-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/mythbusting-html-5-did-not-kill-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythbusting &#8220;HTML 5 Did Not Kill Flash&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, i was thinking.. the Flash Player version number in the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121103204428\/http:\/\/abstrusegoose.com\/strips\/clearly_HTML5_did_not_kill_Flash.PNG\">&#8220;HTML 5 Did Not Kill Flash&#8221;<\/a> comic strip (258.1) &#8230; PLAUSIBLE?<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious that we deal with Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, which places the scene in the Star Trek TNG series. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>, Star Trek TNG is set in the 24th century from the year 2364 through 2370.<\/p>\n<pre><code>Today: 1285956121684 (Fri Oct 1 15:02:01 GMT-0300 2010)\r\nStar Trek TNG start: 12433402800000 (Wed Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT-0300 2364)\r\nStar Trek TNG end: 12654327600000 (Fri Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT-0300 2371)\r\nAssumed 18 months release cycle, in ms: 47304000000\r\nRelease cycles until Star Trek start:\r\n   12433402800000 - 1285956121684 = 11147446678316\r\n   11147446678316 \/ 47304000000 = 236\r\n   236 + 10 = 246\r\nRelease cycles until Star Trek end:\r\n   12654327600000 - 1285956121684 = 11368371478316\r\n   11368371478316 \/ 47304000000 = 240\r\n   240 + 10 = 250<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>So assuming a strict 18 month release cycle, this places version 258.1 just about a decade or so after Star Trek TNG (versions 246-250) ends. If we further assume that new technologies will emerge in the coming 350 years that speed up release cycles a bit, i think we can safely say that Flash Player version 258.1 is indeed <strong>plausible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hypothetically speaking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, i was thinking.. the Flash Player version number in the &#8220;HTML 5 Did Not Kill Flash&#8221; comic strip (258.1) &#8230; PLAUSIBLE? It is obvious that we deal with Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, which places &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/mythbusting-html-5-did-not-kill-flash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","category-html","category-webdev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}