Move from AS3 to JS for Display banners

[cwiens]

At work we are making the move from all flash to all "html5" for our display banners. This is a huge and welcome change as I have been wanting to spend more time in GSAP JS and move away from flash. It looks like the display industry is planning on making the switch in Sept of this year. Lots of designers with no coding background seem to be jumping into Adobe Edge. I plan on sticking with GASP .  The only thing that I need to figure out is dynamic content. We use XML to change our offers i.e. 50% / 30% off etc...on our flash banners. Any examples of doing this in HTML5 or direction from the community would be appreciated. 

[Diaco]

Hi curtwiens 

 

With html+JS that's better / easier to read dynamic data from json objects / files : http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json.asp

 

and check this for Xml data to html : http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_to_html.asp

[cwiens]

If there are any developers in the SF area that would like to get some contract work related to this. Please contact me cwiens@shuttterflly. com

[flysi3000]

At work we are making the move from all flash to all "html5" for our display banners. This is a huge and welcome change as I have been wanting to spend more time in GSAP JS and move away from flash. It looks like the display industry is planning on making the switch in Sept of this year. Lots of designers with no coding background seem to be jumping into Adobe Edge. I plan on sticking with GASP .  The only thing that I need to figure out is dynamic content. We use XML to change our offers i.e. 50% / 30% off etc...on our flash banners. Any examples of doing this in HTML5 or direction from the community would be appreciated. 

Re. dynamic content, I guess it depends on the media buy and who's serving your ads, but there are ad serving vendors like FlashTalking and Sizmek that do dynamic ads as well.

 

This is definitely an exciting change, but as mentioned in an earlier post here on the forums, it's still a free-for-all out there in terms of specs, file sizes, etc. Given all the recent news about Flash, though, I'm hopeful that this will all get sorted out sooner than later.