Thread: So it begins, Flash sites are updating to Flash 10 now
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2010-05-24 , 23:10
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#75
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
To me, flash provides:
1. Video streaming
2. Graphically rich web UI
3. Other multimedia content (games, slideshow, etc)

Since this thread is about (1), my question still stands.

It seems to me html5 can take care of #1 and #2 just fine. I don't know how html5 handles #3, but I don't use those much anyway and would rather block (and optionally view) those type of contents.
The HTML5 spec doesn't define DRM or any other form of rights management, which is important to sites such as Hulu, and it is why Hulu continue to stand behind Flash because it does support rights management. HTML5, right now, is most definitely not Flash - Flash is so much more than HTML5.

BBC iPlayer (a popular Flash based site in the UK serving the last 7 days of BBC copyright content) would be unable to move to HTML5 for the same reason as Hulu.

If all you want is free, unencumbered video streaming then yeah, HTML5 can handle that, more or less, although the additional streaming protocol support in Flash would tend to suggest it is still the superior streaming solution, DRM or not.
 

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