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    <p>A topic of debate that's seen a resurgence since the unveiling of the iPad is the issue of Flash versus HTML5. There are those that suggest that HTML5 will one day supplant/replace Adobe Flash.</p> <p><em>I do not develop software that runs in a browser,</em> so my (limited) understanding is:</p> <ul> <li>HTML is a pure-text markup language that is delivered over HTTP to a client browser. The client browser interprets the markup and renders (with varying degrees of success) the page according to an standard specification.</li> <li>Adobe Flash is a propriety framework for working with audio, video, sound and raster/vector graphics. It requires special authoring tools (a compiler perhaps?) and a custom player that's available as a plug-in to most common browsers.</li> </ul> <p>Could someone please explain (to this C/C++ developer) how it is possible <em>from a technical/coding point-of-view</em> that a text-based markup language (HTML5) could be considered a replacement to a multimedia framework (Flash)? </p> <p><strong><em>Please no opinionated arguments - just technical facts.</em></strong></p>
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    1. CONote that HTML hasn't been as static as you described it for quite some time already. While HTML5 takes it to a new level, "normal" HTML already could do some interesting effects with CSS+JS.
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    2. COThey've been saying this for years, and trying to "standardize the standards" of the web for more years, yet nothing seems to change. Flash (and Silverlight) solves the cross browser incompatibility problem better than anything else so far. (Not quite cross-platform, but a standard cross-browser platform is certainly better than no standard platform at all.) Meanwhile, the number of competing browsers seems to be increasing, making standardization via vendor dev discipline (hah) even less likely to work. A back-compatible software virtual machine approach like Flash or Silverlight just works.
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    3. COInstead of trying to eliminate plugins, it's a shame the "HTML5 people" aren't working on standardizing and improving plugin support. If the browser could be transformed into a "platform delivery system" instead of a "content delivery system", we could have many competing (and to users, entirely transparent and auto-installing) web "platforms" such as Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX, and of course various "legacy web" HTML renderers. This would solve all cross-browser and backwards-compatibility issues immediately by putting the platform under the control of a single "platform developer". Oh well..
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