@aristophrenia
Well stated. I wholeheartedly agree that many that "know-not-what-they-speak" and "have-never-coded" bloggers out there keep confusing HTML5 as some kind of replacement for Flash. First of all, HTML will probably be updated once ever 3-5 years while Flash is regularly steamrolling ahead with new features and capabilities. If you want a brand new phone in 2015 with 2015 technology in it, I would *highly* recommend supporting Flash and those types of technologies. If you don't mind dishing out $500 for a 2015 phone that will run 2008 HTML code (ala HTML5), then by all means, jump on the HTML5 bandwagon. Jump on that $$ bandwagon, so when you want someone to develop a new website for you have them write it several times in HTML5. Or once in Flash. Have them Design several times for all the different color schemes in HTML5. Or once in Flash. Have them Design for the different print codecs. Or once in Flash. Have them spend months to "speed up" slow games (which won't take advantage of current hardware). Or have them write in Flash. You know, the *one* development platform where one render on one system looks the same as it does on other systems? The *one* development platform that has training, literature, experts, several cottage industries, etc. HTML5...well.... what can I say. Someday it will have all those things. Someday.... when the standards bodies actually publish a standard.
Flash is one of those technologies that I for one believe made the web a better place. If you want an ad-less internet, well that's easy. Just hand your ISP about 3 times what you're paying now. Tell Google to file for bankruptcy. Tell the printing media to start chopping down more trees. And btw... those Flash ads you're griping about now... you know the ones that *do* take advantage of your hardware (that's your graphics card, your CPU, and your RAM folks!) right now...well you won't kiss those goodbye. They'll still be there. Just in HTML5. HTML5 - one of those "emerging" technologies that is already diverging into a couple of different versions. Let's just hope it doesn't turn into one of those VHS vs. Betamax or Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD markets. 'Cause the last time we had that issue everyone paid the price - developers, users, ISP's. Remember Javascript?
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