The tech community has been pointing a finger at flash for a long time claiming it a resource hog. Don't get me wrong I have had plenty of crashes with flash and equal frustrations on the developer side writing code for flash players.
The honest part of all this is video takes a lot of resources to play. No matter what type of player it is wrapped in.
So is html 5 our big knight in shining armor from flash? Probably more like a little step ahead. I am sure that healthy competition will also help adobe push ahead.
Check out the screen captures of the two different versions of YouTube playing. The CPU resource is about the same. These were tested on a MacBook Pro. I may revisit the test on my netbook to see if that makes any difference.
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