Flash vs HTML5 video

There was an article about performances comparison between Flash and HTML5 for reading videos.

The conclusion is that there is no clear winner. But I think it's the wrong way to look at the problem. Adobe had years to improve performances of Flash for that task, HTML5 is not released yet and web browsers are at their first implementation of it.

As usual in software development, you have to make it work first, then to make it right and finally to make it fast. So obviously most of the web browsers are not yet at the "make it fast" part, so we can expect better performances in the future.

We can also see that being locked in one technology held by one company is bad. There is no concurrence, so for years Adobe was not stressed to make Flash better. They started trying hardware acceleration few months ago when they realized that they were going to lose market share because of HTML5. They finally got some competitors.

So I think HTML5 is going to be good for web browsers, for Flash, for the web and for people. Anyway, I'm still in favor of getting rid of Flash on the web.