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You know, when Macromedia took Flash in the 90s, they were pushing it on people hard. Really hard. It was a new-fangled thing, and they were putting the marketing spin on that it was the future of the web, bla bla bla, all sites would be in Flash, HTML coders were lamenting that they might be made redundant as a result, graphic designers (especially those coming from print) thought the same thing and on, and on, and on.
It's 2010, and the HTML-marked up Web hasn't gone anywhere ... but then, neither has Flash. After a few years of outright abuse of the technology, it's settled down to the point Flash is mostly used where it's needed, and there's a good reason behind its use*. Meanwhile, those in whose interest it was to stay relevant in the market have gone on to learn the skills involed, either as designers or AS developers (sometimes both).
The same will happy with HTML5. It's the new black. Everyone and their fucking grandma will use it for absolutely everything under the sun, until more sensible heads prevail and realise it's not the catch-all solution. Then we'll go back to the technology being used where it's really needed, along with Flash.
All of this talk and hype about HTML5 being the game-changer, the Flash-killer, The Mother of All Intert00bz Languages is florid rhetorical smoke that will not change games, kill Flash, or be the mother of anything. It's marketing fluff that is being spouted by companies in whose interest it is to make money off the technology, trying to pull the wool over the eyes of those who can actually cut through the clutter and make rational decisions based on objectives and client needs.
*That said, there are still a few hold-outs who abuse Flash like it was 1997.
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