Does HTML5 really beat Flash?
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"After a few years of pounding away at this a lot of the people who were actually having to work with HTML and websites in their businesses were getting frustrated that actual HTML wasn't progressing faster, so they were like fuck this shit, and some of the people from Apple, Mozilla, and Opera went and formed a second group, called WHATWG or WHATWJD or something, to help work on it."
This is what happens when expansion of future technology is constricted to the hands of a group of random vocal people who are mostly interested in speaking at conferences, rather than letting aggressively competing private businesses kill each other over it, for the benefit of the customer.
I have flown with Richard Branson's airline, I haven't with NASA. I have no doubt which one will take me to the moon for reasonable money in 20-30 years.
HTML5 in terms of technical capabilities is merely approaching what Flash 4 did 10 years ago, it is laughable in a fast developing medium the internet is. Flash 4 had image rotation, webkit introduced it a year ago. It is still non-standard, there is no roadmap as to when it would be.
Imagine what HTML would be capable of if it was let alone for market to decide where it should go. I am not going to cry over it, I make good money because I know how fucked up all these "standards" are.