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I tried to run this, and it ran so slowly that I gave up. Admittedly I have a 6 year old Mac, and while it's no speed demon it works well enough for all the tasks that make up my day, and when I bought it it was one of the fastest computers sold. It's just not cool that software, including HTML has gotten so bloated, and programmers have gotten so lazy that they feel it's more important to produce shit code fast than fast code in time it takes. I believe that quality, elegant code will save it's combined users more time by orders of magnitude than that one lazy programmer with the unreasonable deadline will save, including all the bug fixes they'll inevitable have to push out.

The issue isn't your computer, it's the coding on their website -- it's creating a full screen canvas element to draw everything instead of using HTML markup with progressive enhancements.

It ran smoothly on my 4 year old iPad.

100% scroll hijacking by this website (and its badly done too) -- I had to scroll my mouse-wheel dozens of times before I even saw any content and navigation.

If you want to make a website that tries to illustrate Flash vs HTML, make the HTML part half decent and don't make it a horrible full screen canvas element that breaks scrolling and completely ignores any accessibility issues (much like Flash does).

enjoyed the game greatly. Played it 20 minutes after a stint of Aero Fighters on the SNES. works great on a touchsceen.

Flash vs. HTML