FluidHtml rich markup language

FluidHtml is a cross-browser, cross-device, rich markup language for the web.

FluidHtml is a markup language that renders Flash dynamically. This powerful idea means that any web developer can create SEO-friendly Flash animations, applications and websites without years of experience. Since FluidHtml is HTML5 compliant, your markup can run in HTML5 environments without Flash. Yet, FluidHtml brings the extra animation power of Flash when you want to go beyond HTML5. Take a look at our demos to see what's possible.

News

FluidHtml selected as one of the top 50 technologies of 2009
MG Siegler - Adobe’s Flash product has obviously been an integral part of the web for many years now. But it still has a major weakness when it comes search engines and complexity. While Adobe and others have been working on solutions to make Flash-based website more Google-friendly, they’re still nowhere near as crawl-able as regular HTML-based pages. FluidHTML or “Fhtml” is a new server-side markup language that hopes to merge Flash-like functionality with the easier-to-use HTML language. Obviously, trying to create what would essentially have to be a new web standard is no small task. But the group behind Fhtml thinks they have a shot to do it because Flash is so widely used by millions of sites on the web who want a better visual appearance than HTML can offer. Aside from just Flash, Fhtml is also going up against Silverlight another Adobe framework, Flex. But Fhtml claims to be not only simpler than both Flash and Silverlight, but more powerful than Flex. Another downside to Flex, Silverlight, and Flash is that they all must be compiled. Fhtml, like HTML, does not need to be. This makes it a lot easier to edit on the fly. And because all of those are more complex, they often require a special developer with just those skills to create a site using those technologies, Fhtml promises to be much simpler. And because it’s server side, the company says that Java developers, PHP developers, Ruby developers, .NET developers and Python developers can all write Fhtml in their native language. Read full article and see a video of Jim Kremens, the company founder explain the product: TC50: FluidHTML Wants To Rewrite The Web With Flash-like HTML

FHTML, Inc., announces the availability of version 2.0 of its flagship product, FluidHtml.
Westport, CT. Today the company announces the availability of FluidHtml version 2.0. The newest release is a huge leap in functionality, capabilities and ease of use. According to Jim Kremens, Founder and CEO of the company: "The latest version of FluidHtml retains all of the advantages of generating Flash dynamically from markup, but now the language is congruent with HTML5. So it's easier to learn, supports CSS3 rather than our own style sheet paradigm in v 1.2 of the product, and has added many new features only available in the latest release of Flash - like extraordinary text rendering, gesturing support for mobile applications and real-deal 3D." FluidHtml is free to developers. Enterprise licenses are available and provide full enterprise support.

Benefits of FluidHtml

Now any web developer can be a Flash developer
FluidHtml is a markup language that is rendered in Flash dynamically with HTML-equivalent syntax. So, if you know HTML then you know FluidHtml. By using our additional tags and properties, you can make applications, widgets and websites - just like the ones in our demos. And you can mix FluidHtml and HTML on the same web page.

Inherently Search Engine Compatible
Flash is not SEO compatible because it is compiled, binary code. Since FluidHtml is just markup, Google and other search engines can index it easily - just as they would index HTML. Furthermore it is deep-linkable. This means that items in a FluidHtml catalog can be sent to someone and, when they click on the link, they are taken right to the item instead of the beginning of the catalog – which is a common problem in Flash.

CSS3 Style Sheet Support
Support for stylesheets in Flash is extremely limited. Typically, all style changes have to be done in ActionScript and cannot be shared with the styles on your website. FluidHtml has comprehensive stylesheet support, so now your dynamically-generated Flash applications can be styled and restyled easily. In version 2.0 of FluidHtml, our stylesheets are CSS3 compatible. So, the styles you use for HTML pages can also be used in FluidHtml to create Flash animations and layouts.

Simple, Reusable Animations
In Flash, animations are difficult because they are based on timelines or scripting. FluidHtml uses easy-to-understand XML to describe animations. The animations can be named, re-used and nested. In fact, you can develop libraries of animations and re-use them across your projects and teams.

Liquid Layout and Data Binding
FluidHtml supports liquid layout. This means objects can be positioned and resized relative to each other in various ways, rather than just in absolute position. Your application can easily adapt to different screens like desktop or mobile. We also support data binding. This means objects can react to the behavior of other objects, so that you can build up sophisticated applications from their interactions. Want to build a slider to fast forward a video? Just bind the slider object to the video time and voila! - you've just made a video scrubber for your application.

3D and Text Rendering
FluidHtml makes complex things easy. Want to make a beautiful 3D animation? In FluidHtml, you can apply 3d animations and transofmraiton on 2D objects or you can load in real 3D object and transform them in 3D space. Check out some of our 3D demos. We also support Adobe's latest text rendering capabilities. Create next-generation text layouts with columns, image wrapping, right-to-left text, custom fonts and ligatures.