I'm really surprised at how small the flash size is for what it has to offer.

Zyurat said:
I'm really surprised at how small the flash size is for what it has to offer.

That's vectors in a nutshell. It saves the instructions how to draw and move stuff instead of saving all individual pixels. Reason why all the lines are clear and colors flat or gradient. This is why you can also right click -> zoom in and it still looks crisp and detailed.

Just like what midi is with music, only instructions what computer should play is saved so everything fits inside few kilobytes. But pretty sure that anyone who have heard any midis in their life, you can't get mp3 quality or vocals on them.

Mario69 said:
But pretty sure that anyone who have heard any midis in their life, you can't get mp3 quality or vocals on them.

Not necessarily. MIDI audio quality depends on the quality of the sampled instruments on the user's system, and on the specificity of the instructions. Vocals can be generated from text-to-speech and with markup (like vocaloid or SSML). Synthesized vocals have jumped in quality massively in the last 2 years with the application of machine learning techniques by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Baidu with one major goal being the creation of practical voice-enabled assistant AIs like Siri or Alexa.

Now imagine a Flash or HTML5 video that used a cloud service to generate vocals not stored in the file, while loading. Google Home could be forced to generate porn moans in the near future.

Mario69 said:
That's vectors in a nutshell. It saves the instructions how to draw and move stuff instead of saving all individual pixels. Reason why all the lines are clear and colors flat or gradient. This is why you can also right click -> zoom in and it still looks crisp and detailed.

Just like what midi is with music, only instructions what computer should play is saved so everything fits inside few kilobytes. But pretty sure that anyone who have heard any midis in their life, you can't get mp3 quality or vocals on them.

Try Winamp's "Chipamp" plugin with some soundtracks from ocremix.org (personal favourite : Street of Rage 2)