I know almost everyone on here is going to agree with me – but even if just one IDIOT HTML5 supporter reads this – it’s worth it.

First of all – HTML5 is fine for the reasons it was intended – video players without plugins, etc.

BUT… Will people STOP saying HTML5 is a “Flash Killer” or even a replacement, or even in the same league as Flash.

If it wasn’t for Apple’s marketing – this whole “war” wouldn’t have even started – html5 would have just been the update it was intended to be.

Apple would not allow Flash on their iphones for ONE reason – it wasn’t because it’s slow, or uses a lot of battery power, or any reason to improve usability –

Apple would not allow flash on their devices because they wanted to SELL APPS – TO MAKE MONEY.

Think of all the 10000’s of flash games, apps, etc already avilable for FREE on newgrounds,miniclip, etc – why would anyone pay $3 for a game – when they could play in for free?

They HAD to come up with a reason why they shouldn’t include flash.

So why did they support HTML5? Because it’s a terrible substitute with no possibility of competing with Flash.

With no real development suite – making anything in html5 is painstaking. I could recreate almost any of the html5 “killer” demo’s that are available on the web – but know what? My flash versions would be better. It would be vector, so look perfectly sharp, it could be downloaded as a single file and played offline. It could have drop-shadows, glows, and, and most importantly – I could make it fast – not because of ActionScript itself – but because of the Flash dev software. Why take weeks drawing circles in code, when you can use movieclips to make great animations.

Even if there was a software package that made it simple to make html5 games – a sort of “Flash for html5” – (Adobe edge?) HTML5 is still limited. Sending a single file swf, contain all the sound, code, graphics, etc to newground is simple – sending a bunch of html,javascript,pngs will just be a pain.

Need more reasons? Over 90% of users have Flash player installed – so the whole argument that you need to download a plugin for it to work is ridiculous. People have the plugin-and if they don’t – it’s a small simple download – that is linked to by the content.

It’s more effort to download the latest chome or firefox browser that supports html5. Most users are still IE – which doesn’t have full 5 support yet.
I’ve read people saying – flash slows down my browser – and even made my browser crash. I guarantee – there are more javascript errors out there. I’ve had more browser crashes because of poor JavaScript code then flash.

If flash does cause your browser to crash – it’s because Flash is so simple to use – beginners make games/apps/ads – not fully knowing what they are doing, and their code gets stuck in a loop. This isn’t a fault of flash – it’s a fault caused by the coder. Guess what? As more people take up HTML5 – you will get the same poor coding, and just as many crashes.
And if flash crashes your safari browser on your mac – it won’t crash if you use firefox on your mac. The safari browser is to blame there. (If It crashes in ff on the mac – this isn’t the post to discuss mac vs pc)

It’s sad so many people are behind HTML5 as a replacement for flash –without fully knowing why they are supporting it. They’ve been told by Apple flash is bad – and they’ve just accepted it.

The developers of html5 themselves have said people are trying to use it in a way it was not intended.

Sorry for the long post.