anyway, no developer in it’s right mind would start a heavy project with js and html5/css. simply because his head will explode. the lose coding practices of js is just not suited for that.bother myself pointing out how seriously outdated the language is from the fact that it has no true OOP support / architecture, no strict typing, no consistent debug engine, no offline runtime.

html, on the other hand is just a content type (20+ years old) it does nothing. for any tiny functionality you are a slave to 100s of browsers.

flash at the other end you are a slave to only 1 player 1 runtime with almost flawless consistency. looking away from the shortcomings of the AIR (you can shell it if you need more access to various systems) it’s becoming the only cross-platform solution for small applications, media or data driven alike at an alarming phase.

it’s just a matter of time when people will realize just how much “abuse” can the platform take.

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- Zohar Babin

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No indignation at all, I love the fact we finally move in an open direction to a standard that will provide cross-platform implementation. This is just a wake up call to all involved (and us developers).
HTML5 is truly a great and natural progress to HTML and the web in general.

That said, there is still a long way to go till HTML5 can completely offer a true replacement to Flash / SilverLight, etc.
Main reason being many times due to lack of collaboration between members of the standard spec work.

Given 1 example of the video element with the inability to decide on a single common codec and implementation: The lack of codec – makes it impossible for content creators to publish once and make it available to all.
The lack of implementation details – causes issues with: UI compatibility (neither of the browsers will show the same controllbar UI so we’re left with a must HTML implementation to the UI).
And more crucial issues with JS application implementation – if you build an app that rely on seeking the video, drawing it on canvas, etc. there is no way to know how it will behave across browsers/devices, yet again leaving us developers with hacks for specific browsers.

We have to understand, that a spec is only a beginning. What really made Flash what it is, is the tools around it, providing designers ways to easily express themselves. And kudos to Adobe for taking the lead and migrating their tools to export to HTML5, canvas and svg.

There’s a path that HTML5 has started and is only in its starting point, it is up to us developers and up to the members of the spec groups and of course browser makers, to pave the rest of the way and make sure HTML5 will not become an HTML4 with more features.

I fully understand how feel about the lack of support Adobe has for Linux (and somewhat Mac).
I have been a windows as well as Linux user for a long time now, being a windows user is great – everything just works, including Adobe products (which do not have any real good open source replacement yet).

Open Source is a great way to free things and provide an opportunity for all, however, it's main disadvantage is where things tend to take a too bazaar like manner where no one has real responsibility and nothing ever works the same.
We don't want to end up writing bad hacks to make HTML+JS+CSS work on all platform/devices, we want this standard to be fully implemented the same way across all – this is where Flash is strong, and this is why no real replacement is offered still.
Should browsers will drop the needless wars, work together and provide a truly standard compliant implementation (not excluding innovations on new features) – then this triplet of HTML+JS+CSS will form a true alternative to Flash.

Unfortunately, it seems to be a wishful thinking and no more.