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No, I don't believe I will. I'd rather my users know the button is a button, and will behave like they expect, all without taking up 50% of my CPU...

(Aside: I went back to the page to double-check CPU usage, and the button wasn't working this time. Yup, behold the awesome power of flash!)

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Moving over this button resulted in no perceptible CPU impact on my machine (crazy fool).

I have seen many HTML5 demos that have taken up 50% or more of my CPU. So, what's the difference?

I think psadauskas' point was that a shiny button isn't a good benchmark for a flash vs. html5 comparison. Or at least that they don't think that shiny buttons make a lot of sense.

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