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Originally Posted by FanIn80
HTML is probably the single easiest thing on the planet, in terms of "code." It isn't even code, it's just a markup language. I think they teach it in Grade 6 now.
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That doesn't mean HTML5 is "easy", if that's what you're implying.
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Also, YouTube is working on quite a few handheld devices right now, and not one of them uses Flash to do it.
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HTML5 does a pretty good job with video. There's a lot of other Flash functionality that HTML5 does not replace, however -- at least not yet. You can't just go out and replace every Flash site with HTML5, even assuming you had the time and money to do so.
I think its a bit misleading that companies, of which Apple is the loudest voice, are touting HTML5 as this magical silver bullet that can kill Flash. I want to see Flash die too. I'd much rather it be replaced with an open, non-proprietary, standardized format, but HTML5 isn't the answer to everything. We're still going to be stuck with Flash for a while.