{"id":348,"date":"2014-08-15T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:25:51","slug":"interactive-mosaics-html5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/interactive-mosaics-html5\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive mosaics: Goodbye Flash. Hello HTML5."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re thrilled to announce that our <a title=\"Picture Mosaics: Online &amp; Interactive Mosaics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/online\">interactive mosaics<\/a> have made a transition from Adobe Flash to HTML5. Without digging to deep into it, our interactive mosaics are now being built using html code rather than contained within a Flash player. This give us a great advantage when building online interactive mosaics. You can read more about the differences between Flash and HTML5 <a title=\"Accusoft's Blog: HTML5 VS. 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