Christian Stüben wrote:

Hi all,
rumours tell that adobe will bring flash to the end of its lifetime. Apple iPhone and iPod already have no flash support, and there is told, that new releases of android are no longer supported (i am no android expert). If that will be true, maybe other platforms will follow.

What does that mean to Panotour? Are there plans to support other technologies like html5 or whatever exists?

This in mind, will the preannounced version of panotour (somewhere here is said fotokina) show something new?

greetings from germany
Chris

Panotour Pro is already able to produce tours that can viewed with the krpano HTML/javascript Panorama Viewer which does not use Flash.

Currently these can only viewed with the Apple Safari or Safari mobile browsers because at present these are the only browsers that support CSS 3D transforms in a reliable implementation.

You can try this on a desktop or laptop running Safari if you wish.

Use PTP to create an i-Device compatible tour along with a Flash version using one of the HTML template options.

Open the HTML file in Safari. The HTML file invokes a script that detects the browser user agent and loads the appropriate version of the tour.

If the computer you are using has Flash installed then initially you will see the Flash version of the tour, which can be confirmed using right-click to view the Context menu.

Now use the Safari Develop/User agent menu option to change the user-agent selection to one of the i-Device iOS options.

The browser will refresh and load the HTML/javascript version of the tour, you can confirm that this is not the Flash version from the Content menu.

I read that to date Google has failed to deliver a reliable implementation of CSS 3D transforms in any version of the Android 'environment'.  Until Google fixes this my understanding is that that none of the leading Panorama Viewers - PTP/krpano, Pano2VR, Easypano Tourweaver - will be able to display panoramas or tours reliably on Android platforms that lack Flash.

HTML5 is not yet a formal standard.

More on Adobe's plans for Flash here:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02 … -10-years/

Last edited by mediavets (2012-07-11 17:46:21)