HTML 5.0
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- ukit0
I think you know the answer don't you? Flash is obviously way better supported. Just like lukus says above, video is the main area where Flash is your default solution currently.
I think it's gonna get a little more complicated than that pretty soon though. We're entering a period where HTML 5 will not be fully supported, but increasingly people will want to support it to some extent. So that will mean delivering different technologies depending on how the client accesses your site.
Whether that's worth pursuing depends on what kind of site we're talking about. YouTube, Vimeo, and large content-based sites like the NYTimes are already rolling out that kind of multi tiered compatibility. No way are they going to risk not being viewable on the iPad, and in YouTube's case they have clear interests in moving to that new format. For a small business at the moment, it's probably not worth the hassle.
But at the end of the day, you should be educating your clients about what the actual situation is, you'll be able to make a better argument that way.