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If you're an iOS user, HTML5 is a magical place where you can do anything – outside of iOS, it's hit or miss. And if it's hit or miss, it might as well be Flash.

Remember that a client's perspective is often neat, cool and fun rather than works on all devices the exact same.

Flash will die when HTML5 signs the cheques that it's collective evangelicals cash.

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Can you expand about what is neat with HTML(5) on ios? personally the only thing I saw was desolation and poor performance. I rarely saw anything neat cool and fun in html5 for ios..

I surely missed something I guess. I think it's a shame we are not going to have flash on android tablets, it's somewhere it could have perform well.

I agree. Problem is, this Flash vs. HTML5 rhetoric has people mixing in "it can do everything Flash does" and "Flash doesn't work on mobile" leading the implication that if you want to do an elaborate, highly interactive experience, it'll work on mobile and it'll be better than Flash. You see how self-serving that argument is?

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