Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash?

The Flash platform has been taking body blows lately. First Apple, then Scribd, publicly abandon it; now ARM's marketing VP is blaming a delay in ARM smartbooks on the continuing unsuitability of Flash for the subnotebook market. But how ready is HTML5 to take over from Flash? Tim Bray offers a cautionary appraisal of the not-yet-a-standard's state of grace. While Flash may be on the way out (or so legions of its detractors hope), it is still important in many corners of the Web. Here a branding expert demonstrates that the sites of 10 out of 10 leading worldwide brands don't display on the iPad — because they're coded in Flash, of course.

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Re:See, this is what I've been saying on Slashdot

[Andy Dodd]

Um, that's definately a false comment. Intel controlled (and still does) effectively control USB, but Apple was probably the biggest manufacturer to "push" USB when they released the iMac - long BEFORE they had switched from PowerPC to Intel processors.