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by nyellin 5241 days ago
Flash is a proprietary standard with one major implementation, HTML 5 is an open standard supported by multiple vendors.

Accessibility (i.e. for the blind) used to be an issue, but Wikipedia claims that has mostly been fixed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML5_and_Flash#A...
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Jimmie 5240 days ago
Flash may be owned but it is released as open source. The language is completely open, there is an open source compiler and an open source VM.

HTML5, as it is, is a pain in the butt because of multiple vendors supporting subsets of it. I still have to fall back to flash to play mp3s in Firefox.

HTML5 will be great someday, but it's not today and probably not soon.

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