To clarify I was mainly talking about the days when HTML video was newish and flash was still a big priority to Adobe, and there was uncertainty which would win. I agree with what you&#x27;re saying over the long run and certainly today.<p>But I&#x27;d have to quibble with saying flash was never better than native playback - presumably so for raw performance, but that wasn&#x27;t the goal. Flash video was never great for being technically superior, it was great for cutting the Gordian knot that was the codec problem (and indeed one presumes technical tradeoffs had to be made to that end).