@Roque Mocan In an ideal world I'd say we should kill flash and go to HTML5 now. Of course flash has loads of users, it's been the only viable option for the last decade or so for what it offers and some sites (unfortunately) rely on it completely. And every site that requires it has redirected you to a site to download it if you haven't got it already. Of course it's going to have a huge number of users, isn't that much common sense?
Saying HTML5 doesn't look so promising because everyone uses flash now is a bit like saying the next version of windows will never take over because everyone's using the one that's out at the moment.
Would the advocates of flash please remind me what makes it so much better than HTML5, and worth holding onto rather than using standards compliant HTML? Flash has served its purpose but that purpose looks to be gone with HTML5.
Yes, realistically speaking because it's used so extensively and browser support (especially with IE, cheers Microsoft!) isn't all there at the moment, it'll take a long time to fade out. But I for one will be glad when it does, it's really about time.
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