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Even for videos Flash was the best solution for a long time, almost every video sharing website used Flash video players until HTML5 video got developed.

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All that 'HTML 5 video' did was move responsibility for the media player from an extension and into the browser, and wrap it in standard markup.

So ironically the designer no longer just asks 'is Flash available on this platform?' but instead 'which codecs are available on this browser and platform?'.

And apart from Video Codec improvement, many HTML5 video are still not as good as Flash Video Streaming. Mostly an implementation issues and not technical. But no one has the interest of improving it.

This isn't accurate at all. HLML 5 video, MSE etc. have a world of improvements over the mess of FLV / Flash / RTMP streaming.

Can you give some examples of what's wrong with HTML5 video streaming and these implementation issues? There's a huge community of video engineers working to make streaming video better, and we'd love to hear feedback.

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