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I found this shoot'em up to be very crude. It was jerky and not particularly well-made; anything but a good showcase (but with that said, no slandering of the author's effort).

If you want to see some real nice examples of JavaScript/HTML5, check out http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

I posted this above, but here's several examples not only of decent games - Pacman, Tetris - but how to build them as well.

http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

Is this good enough for you?

http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

Pacman, Tetris, etc.

Stupid question that pivots around every Flash-hating entity's mouth wrapped firmly around Steve Jobs' ... marketing skills.

What's not to like, then? Well, the user experience, which in my experience is fourth-rate for anything but games

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Show me an even remotely decent HTML5-based game on par with a remotely decent Flash-based game. Oh snap - you can't.. because HTML5 doesn't specify anything with regard to styles or interactivity. So let's allow jscript, CSS and SVG, too. See if you can get the same performance as Flash. Ready. Set. Go.

I realize these games do include some other tools, but Akihabara is worth mentioning here as an alternative to Flash. Perhaps not "all the way" there yet, but worth a look.

Not sure why you got modded down...games are a huge part of why Apple won't allow it. Places like Newgrounds, Kongregate, etc...they would be filled with games that worked on the iPad and iPhone, yet would be free...meaning Apple wouldn't get their cut.

In theory, you could write an HTML5/java game that behaves pretty much the same way as flash.

A lot more difficult to do from the developers perspective, but its possible.

Actually... What am I talking about "in theory. There are working examples out there of HTML games that play on iPhone via browswer.

Take this for example:

Its an html5 game that actually runs in the iPhone browser.

http://alteredqualia.com/canvasmol/

http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1

I don't think there is anything in Analytics that cannot be done in HTML 5.

Don't forget the fact Adobe didn't have an intel version of Photoshop ready until well after the platform switch, basically giving Jobs the finger during a critical transition back when they were holding all the cards.

For that matter, it's not like they have a real copy of Flash for any phone yet, let alone the iPhone. Even if Apple hadn't had prevented it, there's no real garantee it would be anything but vaporware yet.

This is a point everybody seems to miss: Adobe don't even have a released version of Flash for Android yet (it's supposedly coming in the second half of this year) nor for Windows Mobile 6.5 or 7. The hottest tech market in years and Adobe botched it badly. The truth is they didn't give a shit about Flash for mobile devices until Apple made them hot again and they didn't have the code to push out there and capitalize on the current controversy and so they have been reduced to whining and begging through the media.

With (Apple-backed) HTML5 now doing all kinds of cool shit Flash's days are numbered anyway (and about time too).