Chrome dropping h.264 support
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Yes...we've heard the same story for a year Boz. Flash is teh awesome. Flash will never die:)
We'll see how it all shakes out. All I can say is, a year ago someone on her started a thread called "the death of Flash" and people mostly thought the idea was crazy. Just a year later, you have all major browsers supporting HTML5, iPad is a huge market totally free of Flash, WebGL is coming along quite nicely, and I can watch all of YouTube in HTML5 if I want. So it may be premature to say things will never change:)
The reality is the near future will be multi format no matter what. Flash will not die off instantly. But neither will the adoption of the HTML5 video tag be killed off by any little move affecting only Chrome browsers. As IE9 becomes mainstream, more and more people will be using progressive enhancement techniques to serve HTML5 to some audiences, and Flash to others.