HTML5 Facts?
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I think part of the difference here is that some of you are judging it by what is here today and going through a point by point comparison with Flash like you are shopping for a new DVD player or something. But I don't see how that's relevant to what we'll see five years from now.
Look at the usage of JQuery today, none of it was feasible in browsers ten years ago, even though Javascript the language hasn't changed a great deal. It required browsers to improve in terms of performance, and it also took the efforts of developers to standardize the tools and make them easier to use.
So my personal opinion is that, yea, these tools will eventually replace Flash for a lot of things, but baked into that is the assumption that the capabilities and performance of browsers, JS + HTML5 will continue to improve significantly over the next couple years. That after all is what the open source aspect of the web does so well.