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A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash

Posted by timothy on from the always-a-naysayer dept.

gollum123 writes "Think we'd all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn't exactly a clear winner. They did find that HTML5 clearly performed better than Flash 10 or 10.1 in Safari on a Mac, although the differences were less clear cut in Google Chrome or Firefox. On the other hand, Flash more than held its own on Windows, and Flash Player 10.1 was actually 58% more efficient than HTML5 in Google Chrome on the Windows system tested. As you may have deduced, one of the big factors accounting for that discrepancy is that Flash is able to take advantage of GPU hardware acceleration in Windows, while Adobe is effectively cut out of the loop on Mac." gollum123 also links to additional tests indicating that Flash "does not perform consistently worse on Mac than on Windows."

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  1. Re:I've yet to see HTML5 video work by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 0, Troll

    go away mac fanboy

  2. Re:How much of a perfomance hit for open standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since flash is not fully supported in 64-bit. 64-bit OS:es will not be able to be widely spread.

    Try using an 64-bit OS that supports 32-bit software you stupid retard. (Which is practically all of them except a few broken-by-design Linsux distros)

    PS: you aren't advancing the state of computing by running a 64-bit browser, you are just wasting memory, idiot.

  3. Re:Flash aint so bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Open source? Who cares? How about flash cookies, horrible ads, and stupid UIs for web-sites.

    Haven't you heard? Google and their Slashbot fanboys support replacing all that stuff with HTML5 in order to make it more difficult to disable or block.

  4. Re:Anecdotal evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    well good for them, why should they give a shit about apple and their vocal but small crowd of cocksucking customers.

    why should they spend their time optimizing their product for such a bunch of fake hipsters?

    if i was adobe i would stop making photoshop for your shitty little os!!!!

    if you don't like flash's performance on your os then come over to windows. its simple.

    or wait for html5 - 2022 and it should be up to par with flash (as it is now.)