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alephnull on 02 July 2009
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JaggedSac said:
alephnull said:
JaggedSac said:

HTML 5 specs are not complete.  And will not be for quite some time.  If you think HTML 6 is coming out anytime soon, you are sorely mistaken.  IE matters because it still controls 60% of the browser market.  No one is going to design their site with video tags that IE doesn't recognize.  They will just use Flash, and to a lesser extent Silverlight.  If you think Flash and Silverlight are going anywhere, you are mistaken.  Flex and Silverlight are programmer oriented tools that enable the creation of rich applications that are guaranteed to look the same in each browser.

And if you think HTML5 has anything at all to do with Java, you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.  You probably should have just left out that last sentence.

EDIT: Unless you are talking about applets, which were dead on arrival many years ago.

I bet some people said the same thing about Microsoft's ChromeFX which seems to have been obliterated from history.

Considering that Chromeeffects(or Chrome, a way for browsers to use DirectX and have client hardware handle multimedia so bandwidth was saved) never got released, I doubt people claimed that.

My guess is that you weren't at SIGGRAPH 98 at which it was presented as the MS alternative to flash. I still have the chrome meditation balls they were handing out somewhere.