Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change...there's the door

Re:Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change... by overgard on Saturday November 12, 2011 @07:51PM (#3229451)

The thing that strikes me about all this "flash is dead" talk is that HTML 5 really isn't a sufficient replacement for Flash. It's not even close. I suspect people who say this haven't used either technology seriously, because I can do things in flash that are an order of a magnitude more performant -- and flash isn't even that good. (For the record, I greatly dislike most of flash. It's pretty much shocking that they've just now gotten around to supporting hardware graphics acceleration in a half decent manner.)

HTML 5 is a nice small step; but that's all it is, a SMALL step. If you want to kill flash (which you should), we need something better than this.

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Re:Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change... by cryptoz on Saturday November 12, 2011 @08:32PM (#3229514)

Flash performance varies significantly by platform. It is miserable on all mobile devices and banned on the tablet market leader's devices.

Given the fact that mobile is gropwing so fast and is pretty clearly a huge part of computing in the future, it's ridiculous to suggest Flash seriously out performs HTML5 in this most important area.

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Re:Flash is dead. If you can't deal with this sort of change... by rimantas on Sunday November 13, 2011 @06:09AM (#3230497)

Millions of people enjoy their iOS devices without a trace of Flash. For them Flash _is_ already dead. I am not sure what you can do in Flash that is order of magnitude more performant, but I am pretty sure, that even if that's true I don't care—because this is most likely some very perfomant stuff I have no interest in.

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