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Re:The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising by yoklov on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:19PM (#9886042)
I'm a game developer who has used flash in the past, and does HTML5 mostly now.

HTML5 without WebGL doesn't match the functionality offered by flash, even for just 2D content.

HTML5 with WebGL runs fairly poorly on a lot of machines, and not at all on many as well.

I'm not really sad to see flash go (though I truly hope there is a way to preserve it's content, and would be very sad to see that go), but HTML5 is a ways off from providing the feature set and reliability of Flash.

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Re:The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising by andrewmcwatters on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:23PM (#9886081)
Yep, very well stated. I think Adobe should make an effort to remove features from Flash that are no longer relevant and focus on a core set of functionality that allows Flash to go back to its roots and facilitate the needs of animators over anything else, really.

That's Flash's domain predominantly, and that's what it does best out of its feature set.

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