[sandofsky]

> Of course, Silverlight and Flash both beat the pants off of Javascript for practically every benchmark.

Last I checked, this is not true.

In my darker days, I spent six months on a contract developing a third party full screen media browser for Windows Media Center Edition. Windows MCE is basically a giant IE window, and your apps are web pages.

The architect benchmarked flash vs javascript at the time, and javascript won hands down for the type of work performed.

Using bubblemark in webkit, I get 58 FPS in flash vs 98 FPS in DHTML.

http://bubblemark.com/

I wouldn't be surprised if Flash beat Javascript in IE nowadays, but in that case Flash is just faster on some platforms.

[bad_user]

Wow ... in bubblemark I get ~60 FPS in Flash, ~90 FPSs in Flash (with cacheAsBitmap) and ~160 FPSs in DHTML (using Chrome). In Firefox 3.0.14 I'm getting 60 FPSs in DHTML, while the speed of Flash is the same.

Chrome's V8 engine is awesome. I never realized it.