HTML5, jQuery, etc
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Well, what kind of site are we talking about?
If it's more of a non-interactive, informational site I don't know how much they would really gain from HTML5. They almost certainly wouldn't use the rich media stuff whether it was Flash or HTML. Eventually I guess they would adopt the semantic layout tags like <header>, <nav>, <section> etc
On the other hand, if it's a web based app like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or even a larger social media site (Flickr, YouTube) those are the kind of sites that could benefit from a lot of HTML5 features - little things like drag and drop (which I think Gmail added recently), but also local storage, editable content, etc. And there I could easily imagine them pushing out features to some users that are browser specific.
And then a final category might be independent "start up" web apps like this: http://mugtug.com/darkroom/ or https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/ that require HTML5 to work at all. So that might be where you see the split in terms of modern web versus IE web. Those two are pretty small scale but it's not crazy to think that you could build a viable business with an approach like that if you were doing something original.