5 Points to Consider Before Migrating From Flash to HTML5

Now I hope you must have understood that that HTML5 is the best option as I explained in my previous article Why You should Migrate From Flash to HTML5? Now lets talk how do you go ahead with the migration? Get ready to get great advice!

Here’s a breakdown of how you should assess your migration process, having added questions that you and your team should ask yourselves.

#1 Estimate your business value: By weighting essential criteria important your business, you can work closely with business and technology stakeholders and establish a value for your business. For example, do you require multi-lingual support? Where’s the target audience located?

#2 Determine the value of multiple channels: Ask yourself if there will be a viable number of opportunities that will come your way once you migrate to HTML5? Consider how making your app responsive and cross-platform compatible is going to help your business grow? Quantify customer adoption, revenue growth or impact on customer retention.

Remember: HTML5s Flexibility in easy viewing across all mobile platforms reduces the cost of ownership to a great extent.

#3 Assess current security risks. Do you need to mitigate any immediate security threats to your business? Or have you been a victim of Phishing attacks?

Flash apps are often susceptible to Cross-site Scripting. It can cause –

Changing page content. This can mislead the user to enter confidential information on a phony site or even lose access to their account indefinitely.

Account theft. Hackers can get access to your cookies which may further lead to account hijacking.

Vulnerability in Flash applications. Flash is used at places where other scripts are used. If your application interacts with different Web page elements, your application can be easily attacked by the hacker.

Step 4. Weigh the fit to modern UI frameworks. If you want to install feature-functions, does  your existing UI frameworks (e.g. KendoUI, AngularJS) provide the essentials that will ease the migration of required functionality? Ask yourself if there is any intrinsic application functionality which will hinder the Flash to HTML5 migration?

Step 5. Gauge the complexity of the migration. In this step, consider the non-technical aspect of migration. For example, what would adapting a new platform mean from an organizational point view?

After you have considered all points, answered them satisfactorily, go ahead with your decision without any further deliberation.

Create Your Own Flash to HTML5 Migration Strategy

Now that you know which applications are the best candidates to migrate, you can now move on to develop a plan, budget, and roadmap for these applications.

Go ahead and hire professional Flash to HTML5 development services right away.