Canvas tag was in safari (both desktop and mobile) and Firefox. Flash (at it's core) is just a canvas you can draw on.
2 Years ago, Flash (or Flex) was immature (for RIA), had poor tools, and poor runtime support (i.e half implemented exception handling, memory leaks etc), impossible to test.
HTML by comparison had a lot of tools for interaction models, and was only immature around canvas (animation/effects). Was easy to test etc.
They were kind of the inverse of each other. Flash was definitely not king. The company I worked at, was working on one of the largest flash apps around, and we constantly had problems with flash, to the point where a silverlight or HTML5 port was considered. (Not sure what they ended up doing).
Canvas tag was in safari (both desktop and mobile) and Firefox. Flash (at it's core) is just a canvas you can draw on.
2 Years ago, Flash (or Flex) was immature (for RIA), had poor tools, and poor runtime support (i.e half implemented exception handling, memory leaks etc), impossible to test.
HTML by comparison had a lot of tools for interaction models, and was only immature around canvas (animation/effects). Was easy to test etc.
They were kind of the inverse of each other. Flash was definitely not king. The company I worked at, was working on one of the largest flash apps around, and we constantly had problems with flash, to the point where a silverlight or HTML5 port was considered. (Not sure what they ended up doing).