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I'm not sure this makes sense, since the underlying engine is identical on all platforms. The only differences are relatively small, such as a certain object may not work, or the ability to use platform-specific plugins like the Windows 8 object. This is all documented (but lots of people still ask questions about things that are documented :P)
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Have a read of Optimisation: don't waste your time. Worrying about this issue is a complete waste of time and will probably never make any difference at all, so use whichever you find most convenient.
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Your events don't make sense, unless you have an image point named "loopindex".
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This sounds like good news. It sounds like it won't affect Construct 2 directly, but will allow Google to ensure their browser can keep improving quicker than before.
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The only thing you can really do to optimise memory use is to use fewer images and fewer animation frames. 68 MB is absolutely massive for a compressed app - decompressed it could be hundreds of megabytes, and mobile devices have very limited memory, so you're trusting Safari to shunt images to and from memory at random times to prevent itself running out of memory.
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It's fine to use a layout-sized tiled background. Method 2 of designing your level will probably cause you to go mad, so I'd recommend method 1 simply because it's the only practical option. Performance should be approximately the same as method 2 anyway.
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Yes.
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Microphone input should be coming eventually to HTML5, at least on Chromium based platforms (Chrome + node-webkit). Last I tested it I couldn't get it working, but hopefully the kinks will be worked out soon.
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Construct 2 doesn't support writing files at the moment. Your best bet is either WebStorage or savegames.
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If you mean WebGL shaders, then those aren't supported in CocoonJS right now, but they've actually announced WebGL support is coming soon.

The blend mode property (which works without WebGL) ought to work, but a quick test turned up some bugs which I reported to Ludei. It might work in your own project though.
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package.json is in <install>/exporters/html5/node-webkit. You could try importing the .jar as a project file. But I think you're crazy for trying this.
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With a license you can also use the node-webkit exporter to make desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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