On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 04:50:58PM -0600, »Q« wrote > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:47:47 -0600 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong here. Isn't flash supposed to be dying > > anyway? Why are so many sites still using it if they should be using > > HTML5? Isn't HTML5 supposed to eliminate flash?? > > It's been *supposed* to be dying for years, and HTML5 video was hoped > to be the silver bullet that would finish it off. Mozilla certainly > wants it dead, and IIRC even Google and Adobe have paid lip service to > killing it off. Unfortunately (IMO, natch) Mozilla no longer has the > market share to drive things, and (IMO again) Google doesn't have the > will to deal with it, despite having taken steps such as using HTML5 > on YouTube. Mozilla recently announced deprecation of all NPAPI > plugins -- except Flash, because people whose news/sports/porn videos > stopped working would just switch to Chrome.
The other problem is that HTML5 sucks up more CPU for video. My data point with an ancient underpowered Atom netbook watching a Youtube music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA Flash ===== 1) Regular (i.e. smallest) display plays OK 2) Wide format display plays OK 3) Fullscreen audio OK, but video stutters badly HTML5 ===== 1) Regular (i.e. smallest) display plays OK 2) Wide format audio OK, but video stutters badly 3) Fullscreen; you don't really want to know -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
