The fact that HTML5 is an open source standard developed by many developers world-wide indicates that this product has been more and more perfected over the years unlike its chief rival - Adobe’s Flash. The battle of HTML5 and Flash is often inconclusive, with haters and supporters almost putting forwards equally weighted pros and cons.
One of the places where Flash is hurting is that it is not GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) programmable. This is where JavaScript scores. GPU processing results in better performance of animated graphics and videos. Flash uses just the CPU power, and there the GPU remains unutilized. Another big demerit of Flash is the lack of iOS support. Apple claims that Flash is buggy and not suitable for iPad and iPhone. It has thereby lost a considerable amount of user base. There are also claims that Flash is not very suitable for Touch devices as it is not very energy efficient. It causes heating up of devices. With half the devices going touch, Adobe will definitely have a tough time countering these petty issues.
Many companies in the recent years have migrated to HTML5 web apps, but some still love the classic Flash. T-Shirt Designer tools are seeing such a migration too in recent times. Refreshing and bloating apart from not being cross platform, Flash is giving way to HTML5 in this domain. Apple’s wrath has cost Adobe a great loss, but is the good old Flash that made our web beautiful really that bad after modern updates, or is it just a prejudice on the skeptics’ minds?
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