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Same rant as Steve Jobs claimed why Flash should die years ago. I got lot of downvots on HN previously by saying HTML5 was the exact same shit as Flash, what's

by est 15y ago

Same rant as Steve Jobs claimed why Flash should die years ago. I got lot of downvots on HN previously by saying HTML5 was the exact same shit as Flash, what's better is that there is no way to block canvas animation ads yet.

k33n 15y ago
The only reason this demo uses a lot of CPU is because it uses a lot of tricks to stay under 1K. Any JS guy could get the same result with far less CPU usage. Also, HTML5 has nothing to do with CPU usage. JavaScript performance (which is quite a bit better than Flash, even with SVG and/or Canvas manipulations) is the thing that actually uses CPU.
- est 15y ago
  It's no help that JS is faster than AS for now, AS used to be much faster than contemporary JS, but how about display ads with dozens of Flash embedded? Fast is only relative. Think about dozens of canvas animation ads embedded with Javascript. It will be as shitty as Flash. I'll switch to the first browser that allows me to selectively disable all HTML5 crap.