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Jesus Boz look at those huge walls of text, how much time do we waste arguing about this shit? Not enough!
The goal of Flixel and this game is not to have amazing graphics, it's to have well crafted graphics, to fit into the retro style. Flash's uber performance doesn't apply here, some Flixel games do not run as smoothly as others. Yes, games that could run in the 1980's do not run smoothly in Flash in 2010! We're not coding in assembler and Flash isn't optimized for those use cases.
As I've said before on YH!, nowhere in the HTML5 spec do they say they want to be compatible with Adobe's toolkit by offering all the features of Flash. HTML5 does not share your priorities and may never be appropriate for the work Flashers like you are doing.
But it is already good enough for some people. Notice this guy got a large enough audience, despite IE being behind, and riding on the HTML5 hype wagon helped him get it.
Can Flash do that? No because it's hated.
Yes, he is reinventing the wheel from what Flixel was doing for a year. Flash games were re-inventions of Java games which were re-inventions of C games etc.. Same old shit made with new toys.
The priorities of these news toys are different from the old toys. HTML5 has "threading" ready. Flash does not. So for certain people Flash is not good enough. When will Flash get threading, considering Adobe is busy making mobile versions? 2012? Is there even a schedule? No there isn't and that's going to lose them developers.
Typed arrays for WebGL allow you to do calculations stupid fast. When will the typed numbers in AS3 give that performance? So far Adobe recommends to use PixelBender, how convenient.
I'm just underlining that your Flash is ahead on all fronts while HTML5 is in the dust is a biased assessment. Unsurprisingly Flash is ahead on all the fronts that you care about. That's one of those chicken or egg riddles.
- Well I don't disagree with anything you have posted there.Boz