http://jilion.com/sublime/video
http://www.craftymind.com/factory/html5video/CanvasVideo.html

Adobe’s implementations of flash have a constant stream of critical risk vulnerabilities, which 99.9% of people use, which is why Flash should just be dumped alltogether, even if it was completely open; nobody would switch to the open versions of Flash because either they don’t know how or the open versions aren’t as “good”, as Adobe can just add new features when they feel like it and pay people to develope their proprietary player.

Furthermore, Flash is just a stitch that you throw on the browser, dictated by some idiots who don’t know one thing about web technology. HTML 5 was created by the people who develop web standards, to be fully integrated. I think I trust them much more, and it already shows that HTML5 media is far superior to the garbage that is Flash.

Flash is known for being a slow, bloated, unstable, disgustingly ugly piece of trash. It is far too late, it can never be fixed.

There are open implementations of Flash, but they are all crap, nobody really gives one crap about making them better anyways, and they shouldn’t because HTML5 media is here weather you like it or not. Your only alternative is to never update your browser for HTML5 compliance, and let it rot in hell because nobody wants some unstandardized piece of crap that doesn’t work on any site.

Flash is the cancer of the internet.

What issues are you getting in IE you don’t get in FF (and vice-versa)?

In my experience you get the same results across OSs too, with the exception of a small set of very new features (such as hardware acceleration)…

Besides “speed” what in your mind differs across operating systems?

ok, the api is consistent, but the resulting interpretation of swf in flash player across different platforms isn’t. i’m stating this as a user not a developer. if i install flash player on linux or mac i expect the same results as in windows.

so please don’t call me a liar.

Flash is a great tool, but until we get the same functionality acros platforms it just fails. and fails bad.

As for the DHTML comparison. Another outright lie. The FP10 API is ubiquitous. As is FP9, FP8, FP7… I think you get the point.

Stop making things up about a technology you clearly don’t understand.

flash player on linux or mac isn’t even close to the player on windows ( to say that activex version and mozilla version also differes )

If you watch towads the end of the video on the Android HTML5 animation framerate is like 3 – 12 Frames Per Second. Pathetic. While Flash 10.1 is 28-30 FPS and looks pretty normal. I benchmarked HTML5/JS VS. FLASH/AS animations myself using an animated cloth simulations and came up with very similar results about 2 months ago.. HTML5 and Javascript is worse than Flash and Actionscript in chewing up CPU AND MEMORY!! It’s what I suspected. HTML5/JS beats flash only when the animated particles / spites or physics crunching is VERY LITE.. when it is intense (lots of stuff going on at once) Flash is FAR SUPERIOR!!! It’s a fact.

There are other tools out there. This is just one I know of.

Otherwise I completely agree. Apple doesn’t want it because it won’t make them money and I would dump it myself if I didn’t have a need for it.