What the title says… how is HTML5 going to replace the animation and audio/visual integration (+smoothness) of Flash?
Anyone who’s thinking to build multimedia rich presentations, and other content which works on most browsers and devices… how can we do it without Flash today?
There’s a lot of buzz around HTML5 video and canvas, but they don’t seem to be as nice as Flash yet, and are not all that well supported. Still, you can create your videos and use a combination of the video element with a Flash fallback for older browsers right now. You just need to provide a few different video formats, because there is no video format that all devices support … not even Flash.
I don’t think it’s going to completely replace Flash because people are still going to be making things such as stick animations and games. Though you could make a small game in HTML5. I also imagine that those who are fluent in ActionScript aren’t going to be willing to give it up and learn something else.
What I do look forward to is using HTML5 for videos. You can participate in something like that for Youtube.
I’m not…with Firefox, using HTML video on Youtube is a pain on my computer. With HTML 5 video I cannot watch anything in full screen even at the lowest quality level. It could just be Firefox…or my computer…or the video format. But on Youtube HTML 5 in Firefox is not useable. Flash works just fine even at HD quality.
I did participate in the HTML5 thing for Youtube and I am using FireFox. It didn’t seem much better than Flash but I figured it was for the best since using HTML5 is suppose to use a lot less CPU. I always assumed there was something wrong with my internet connection.
Umm…no. The only way for HTML 5 to use less CPU with video is if it is Internet Explorer 9 and the computer has a graphics card that supports video decoding of h.264. Firefox and its Ogg Vorbose format has no hardware acceleration, its purely CPU bound. Google’s, format also lacks hardware acceleration. Currently the only format that has widespread support is h.264 which IE9 and Safari support. Flash and Silverlight both have hardware acceleration will a few more formats.
Oh well then forget what I said.
Have a look at this: http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
That’s pretty awesome, and no Flash in sight. And it works in all recent Chrome/ Firefox/ IE (9) browsers (haven’t tried it in Opera).
I’d hardly call that a ‘small’ game 
You sure it doesn’t use Flash?