All this talk that HTML5 will replace flash has got me wondering: one reason to use flash over ajax is flash is faster at rendering large amounts of data in a grid: say a grid of dimensions exceeding 10000x100. How will HTML5 increase the performance of grid rendering? Or will paging and on-the-fly (live) fetching still be needed?
"one reason to use flash over ajax is flash is faster at rendering large amounts of data in a grid:"<p>I'm a little confused about the point you're trying to make here, given that Ajax is a method for retrieving data from the server with Javascript. That has nothing to do with rendering that data to screen.<p>Unless you mean the Flash version can preload all the data. This is a design decision and can be made in a HTML/JS grid as well.<p>Regardless, this has nothing to do with HTML5 and the HTML5 spec itself has nothing to do with performance. Performance is implementation specific.