Which is good in part, you look at Mac OS, it's an controlled environment. The standards are all defined within Adobe/Macromedia. No one can come in and change the way actionscript is being interpreted without Adobe.
I'm pointing out that OSX and Flash operated in a very controlled environment. Both have control over the source (standards/codebase) and the end user (Flash player/Apple hardware)
I don't think it really will be an honest comparison, tbh. No offense. To make it honest, you'd have to compare a well-authored Flash site with an equally well-authored HTML one. Unless you're the best at both it won't be equal.
Also, you'd have to compare it on mobile environments and consider accessibility (and I'll leave the argument of "Flash is soooo accessible these days!" to someone else), as well as test Calls to Action in them both. It's much deeper than looks and preference.
While both sites wont be 100% exactly the same, they will be similar enough to get a general "user experience" comparisson. I will say that I am enjoying my new site much more then the Flash version, mostly because ive built a much more streamlined experienceI don't think it really will be an honest comparison, tbh. No offense. To make it honest, you'd have to compare a well-authored Flash site with an equally well-authored HTML one. Unless you're the best at both it won't be equal.
Also, you'd have to compare it on mobile environments and consider accessibility (and I'll leave the argument of "Flash is soooo accessible these days!" to someone else), as well as test Calls to Action in them both. It's much deeper than looks and preference.
Flash player still consumes a lot of overhead especially if the content gets overly complicated and the author is not well versed in Flash optimization. It's very easy to get carried away putting in whole lot of non-optimized elements on the canvas. It takes planning and effort to streamline the contents which not many people are willing to do, because we all assume the other party will have the same experience as us.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("untitled.swf", "myAlternativeContent", "800", "600", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myAlternativeContent">
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
<img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>There's no winning I suppose
I get 94.56% Javascript enabled, I wonder what the percentage of Flash enabled is...