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HTML5 vs Flash - a direct comparison of performance

Thursday, March 11, 2010

It is known that now for the implementation of streaming video and audio content on web pages and other matters related to vector animation and interactive graphics, most commonly used multimedia platform Adobe Flash. At the same time gaining popularity Standard HTML5, which implements virtually the same functionality.



For example, the popular World broadcasts YouTube has already launched a test version of its service with support for HTML5, avoids the installation of Adobe Flash Player and similar additional applications. In addition, after YouTube like functionality and got a large video service Vimeo.



Moreover, the company Adobe has recently been heavily criticized by the head of Apple's Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), upreknuvshego her laziness for failing to implement support for Flash technology in the "apple" computers and mobile devices. But is it really good standard for HTML5, compared with the already familiar Flash?

The answer to this question have tried to give expert Jan Ozer (Jan Ozer) with resource Streaming Learning Center, spent a direct comparative testing of two technologies. Although his tests were not distinguished scientific precision, they give some idea can. They found, for example, that although the HTML5 ahead of Flash Player 10, or 10.1 in many aspects, for example, the performance in Safari on a Mac, but the advantages of the new standard does not seem quite so obvious.

For example, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox differences in performance between HTML5 and Flash is not so noticeable. On the other hand, when tested on a PC running the Windows operating system much better than it has proven platform Adobe Flash. Suffice it to say that Flash Player 10.1 when tested in the Windows version of Google Chrome was 58 percent more efficient than HTML5.

One of the main reasons for this advantage is the fact that Flash in Windows systems takes advantage of hardware acceleration using the GPU. According to Jan Lake, the differences between HTML5 and Flash performance on Mac systems could be effectively reduced to zero, if the technology was able to use Adobe acceleration implemented using graphics on these machines.

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