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I think some people are forgetting that Flash is used for more than just serving up video and pop-under ads (though admittedly that would be its largest use).
by statictype 17y ago
I think some people are forgetting that Flash is used for more than just serving up video and pop-under ads (though admittedly that would be its largest use).
There are a lot of games that may not be possible to run on an HTML 5 canvas.
Also, lost in this discussion is the fact that one of the more popular browsers doesn't support HTML 5 in its current version or possibly even its next.
Does streaming video work under HTML 5 specs? If not, that's another thing that Flash can do, which you can't with html5.
- robin_reala 17y agoAlso, lost in this discussion is the fact that one of the more popular browsers doesn't support HTML 5 in its current version or possibly even its next. Not natively, but http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ Does streaming video work under HTML 5 specs? Yes.
- kierank 17y agoDoes streaming video work under HTML 5 specs? Yes. Not within ogg/theora it doesn't because there's no way of signaling the correct amount of data to buffer as used in the buffering mechanisms of modern video codecs.
- statictype 17y agoa) Excanvas is slow. I've used it in some projects. Its not too bad, but performance was an issue for me b) There are other parts of HTML5 that IE doesn't support. Although I guess someone will eventually create similar shims to make <video> work as well as webworkers and database access.