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    A few myths I'd like to see ended in this debate:

    -The idea that Apple "dropped" support or "refused" to support Flash on the iPad. The truth is that there was no workable Flash plugin available when the iPad shipped. Adobe then disingenuously wrote a blog post asking "Guess what's missing" after the iPad demo. Well no shit it was missing, Adobe hadn't developed the plugin yet. This doesn't excuse Apple's later non-support, but why misrepresent what actually happened?

    -The constant paranoid obsession with Steve Jobs and him being behind any slight to Adobe, real or otherwise. Granted, he's been more vocal than anyone else about his dislike for Flash, but he definitely isn't "behind" HTML5 like some people keep suggesting.

    If there's any one company that can be said to be behind HTML5, it would be Google (seeing as the author of the HTML5 spec is a Google employee, Ian Hickson). But HTML5 is really just the product of the WHATWG and W3C (the group that has overseen every version of HTML that's been released), and these groups include people from many companies, one of which is, ironically enough, Adobe.

    -The idea that HTML5 will "fail." This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what HTML5 is. Would you say Windows 8 or the next version of OSX were marketing hype and will fail? HTML is the equivalent platform for the web.

    In a few years, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Coda and other web dev tools will likely provide an HTML5 doctype by default, as will Wordpress and other web publishing platforms. The best you could do would be to argue that the aspects of HTML5 that compete directly with Flash won't be adopted on a large scale. But that's far from the same as saying HTML5 will fail or that it's a hype or the product of Jobs' imagination.

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    • Who's saying HTML5 will fail? The only ones who are saying something will fail is Apple fanboys talking about Flash.Boz
    • "HTML5 is just a buzzword.. hype that Steve Jobs raised by trying to justify absence of Flash on his own devices because it would take control out of his hands."ukit
    • because it would take control out of his hands." -Bozukit
    • but, this thread is about the Flash plug-in on the Mac, not about the iPad or HTML5doublespaced
    • I mean cmon...maybe you don't really believe, but could you be more misleading?:)ukit
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