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Re:Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Compa... by watmough on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @08:30PM (#1323137)
Really?

I always thought that Flash was quite performant compared to browser-based Javascript. Can you point to any benchmarks?

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Re:Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Compa... by MartinCron on Thursday May 06, 2010 @12:57AM (#1323619)
Flash performance varies widely. Flash on Mac OSX is generally regarded as terrible, while Flash on Windows isn't as bad.
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Re:Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Compa... by earl on Thursday May 06, 2010 @03:38AM (#1323830)
If by generally regarded, you mean literally blows chunks... ffs, VLC is open source and it performs better on my macbook pro. Adobe is too incompetent even to copy freely available code.
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Re:Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Compa... by camwest on Thursday May 06, 2010 @09:05AM (#1324310)
Clearly video and PDF display are two different animals. Saying that performance blows on video and then using VLC as a comparison for JavaScript vs ActionScript performance is completely besides the point.
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Re:Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Compa... by MartinCron on Thursday May 06, 2010 @12:17PM (#1324744)
Yeah, sure, "blows chunks" is a perfectly fair assessment. I was just trying to be somewhat diplomatic.

I work with a hardcore Mac zealot and it's a running joke in the office that he will complain about Flash performance every single day.

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