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HTML5 vs. Flash

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i agree that HTML should be better than flash. but why was adobe arrogant to not port to BSD? BSD doesnt have that much weight.

How is that arrogant? Adobe is a company, they're not putting manpower on BSD when there are only 5 BSD desktop users world wide.
 
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What influenced the change to HTML5 anyways? Programming limitations? I feel left out of an argument here!
 
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What influenced the change to HTML5 anyways? Programming limitations? I feel left out of an argument here!

Well it's not really a change to html5 as far as flash is concerned.

HTML5 is just an update to HTML which allows it to expand on a number of features that would be important for HTML in this day and age. The reason why flash comes up is because a lot of those new features encroach on things that flash is normally used to do (such as playing videos and such).

Where things get more dicey though is because of the new HTML5 element known as the canvas which allows html5 to do a lot of drawing and animation that would normally be only possible using flash/shockwave/silverlight etc etc.

If canvas proves to be a viable tool it would be something which would work on websites that would require no plugins or 3rd party software to run so long as your browser supports html5. From a development perspective it means you don't have to spend the money on getting a license.
 
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Well it's not really a change to html5 as far as flash is concerned.

HTML5 is just an update to HTML which allows it to expand on a number of features that would be important for HTML in this day and age. ...

thankyou
 
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Some of the short hand is even shorter, that's really the only change I can think of. The rest is just additions as said above. Sites can store data on users computers to be accessed later (could mean faster page loading), its not directly part of html5 but there are many options for implementing typefaces that that are being associated with html5 and css3. Geoip is new and an html5 specification. Something kinda funny is W3C did not initially start HTML5, WHATWG did and W3C just kinda jumped on board.
 
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