Comment Re:Javascript trumps Flash? (Score 1) 356
Unfortunately not true. HTML5 isn't even an approved standard and won't be for another year or two. Adobe has said it will have HTML5/Canvas capabilities built into the Flash IDE by then (it already has been demonstrated to do this).
A chief strength (and criticism) of flash is that it is a compiled format, now using an ahead-of-time compiler. Try to do AR in javascript or something similar -- you can't. Flash has tried to be the web's bleeding edge; they do not need to wait for anyone before building in new capabilities.
PS Flash supports C++ libraries as well via the alchemy project, introducing great speed boosts over AS3 as well as interoperability with AS3.
A chief strength (and criticism) of flash is that it is a compiled format, now using an ahead-of-time compiler. Try to do AR in javascript or something similar -- you can't. Flash has tried to be the web's bleeding edge; they do not need to wait for anyone before building in new capabilities.
PS Flash supports C++ libraries as well via the alchemy project, introducing great speed boosts over AS3 as well as interoperability with AS3.