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Flash 5 == JS+HTML5.

• cjbos 17y ago
  As a flash developer I can say that version 5 of flash is not comparable to HTML 5, the video tag equivalent wasn't really implemented until version 7 (HTTP progressive download of video assets). Some missing things from HTML5 I'm watching to see how they progress: 1) Microphone & Camera support, and supported publishing encoders (Flash only encodes video as very basic Spark which is poor quality) 2) Web Sockets = Flex Remoting. But Flex Remoting sends AMF objects so you don't need to serialize/deserialize is this the same for Web Sockets or do you send data as JSON? 3) Live Video Streaming (Or just regular streaming video) 4) Peer 2 Peer connections (And soon to be Multicast support) 5) I saw webkit has fullscreen support, do you have limited keyboard input when this happens like in Flash? If those were in place I don't see why I couldn't build my app in HTML5 instead of Flash, its a corporate application so we can control the supported browser version
• statictype 17y ago
  Flash = JS + HTML 5 + tcp networking + more video support + more audio support + more ubiquitous (for now) + works on more browsers. Of course, Flash is also more proprietary.