
Flash is a multimedia software platform used for production of animations, browser games, rich Internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications and mobile games. Flash displays text, vector graphics and raster graphics to provide animations, video games and applications. It allows streaming of audio and video, and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera input. In 2016, Adobe changed Flash’s name to Adobe Animate. This was because the Flash Player had a bad reputation, and they wanted to separate it from that.
HTML5 natively supports on demand and live video streaming sources. Adobe Animate, on the other hand, has been the only way to let rich audio and video content run on the web for more than a decade. The HTML5 canvas element is used to draw graphics, on the fly, via JavaScript. The canvas element is only a container for graphics. The HTML5 video element is used to play videos on browser.
The HTML5 technology comes from the open source sector of HTML. It has some advantages over Flash without any doubt. The biggest is in the mobile space as device providers have opted for HTML5 as the future.