[deno]

I think you wanted to be sarcastic, but I can't understand why. That's probably the reason you have been downvoted.

Anyway. Modern browsers with canvas, svg, webgl etc. are trying to develop what I think is essentially poor man's virtual machine. It's basically concept that Java Applets and Flash pioneered long ago. Except they didn't get implementation exactly right. This whole “Flash sux. HTML5 rox” hype is very short-sighted. Current implementations (except video) are slower than Flash (esp. on Windows) if even existent. And what do you think will happen in few years? If we're lucky we might have fast and reliable implementation of a decade old idea. The fact is that innovation doesn't come from standard bodies. In few years, we'll face this same exact situation, when attempting to use some new technology in our webapps, might it be 3D screens or thought-controlling or speech recognition, yet again to face lack of API or its 3 different implementations.

So what new does HTML5 bring to the table? Just recycling the same old idea, hoping to get it right this time.

I hope we'll have a decent and fast open implementation of Flash, or maybe Silverlight will get better traction, so that we'll be ready when everybody realize that this was just silly.

[axiom]

Dude, that's exactly my point. I'm saying the anti-flash hysteria is foolish.

[deno]

See, the only reason I noticed it was because of this “4-5 short years.” It's just Poe's law applied.

[axiom]

Yeah, in retrospect I should have just kept my mouth shut. By the way the virtual machine analogy is really cool - I hadn't thought of it that way before.