By Thierry.Lefort
via readwriteweb.com
Published: Mar 10 2010 / 23:05
On the flip side, Apple supporters echo the company's sentiments that "Flash is a CPU hog" and including support for the technology in Apple's mobile line-up would negatively impact battery life.
However, recent tests have put Flash up against HTML5, the new web markup language that eliminates the need for the Adobe plugin. The results of these tests show that this is not a simple black-and-white issue. Is Flash really a CPU hog? Yes, in some cases. But, surprisingly, not all the time. In fact, sometimes HTML5 actually performed worse.
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pt93903 replied ago:
quote: "some people have pointed out that Ozer has done seminars and written books featuring Adobe products, so therefore he makes money from the success of Adobe Flash"
danto005 replied ago:
how can they compare cpu utilization on a mac vs. windows machine? like comparing apples and oranges. as far as I know safari does not run well on PCs at all.
danto005 replied ago:
Like some people say apples exclusion of flash from the ipad is so that they can control content a lot of internet advertising is through flash. so $0 of that will hit the ipad. Apple can do that because sheeple will still buy the ipad most users dont know what flash is.
Hardcoded replied ago:
How can 2 completely different thing be compared?
HTML is a markup language for formatting text and various elements without any logic (That will be added through Scripts, Plugins, etc).
Flash on the other side is a real programming language (which can be used to display text, too).
None of them can replace the other.
Btw: The original article clearly states what is tested, so skip this article and go straight to the original, if you are interested in a comparison about how browsers perform with the video-tag and Flash Video
@thierry_lefort replied ago:
Here it is : http://www.dzone.com/links/flash_player_cpu_hog_or_hot_tamale_it_depends.html
mswatcher replied ago:
HTML5 has big confusion with the video codecs to be used. more over the HTML syntax is ugley when compared to C#, which is used in Silverlight .Its a game of apple and google to push HTML5 both lacks their own cross platform RIA runtime
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