Flash has already been dying for awhile now (thank God). It's still useful for apps and animations but thankfully, people stopped using it for site creation.

I feel cheated rocketpig. I feel deeply cheated.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=105861&page=1&str=771544215#

But I guess I will jsut post my reply in this thread here.

"Yes. YES. FUCK. YES."

Edit: I failed copy/paste class:

"I want this right now. I don't think id will mind too much since they are a cool company like that. I played the shit out of The Edge over the IPX netwroks back in the day. I still remember that place like the back of my hand.

The Spiral (rail gun over here I guess) for the fucking win."

Oh, hahahahah, sorry to steal your thunder. :D

I don't think you were sincere enough.

And you'd be totally right about that.

HTML 5 is meh.

Really, it's solving very few problems but hey, it's shiny and that's what people like.

The rendering engines in current browsers still haven't gotten HTML4/XHTML right and they've had a decade or so to do it.  So now Safari and Chrome support HTML5... great.  It won't be widely used until all modern browsers support it.  It won't even be widely used when all modern browsers support it if legacy browsers still hold valuable market share.  Even when all browsers do support it odds are at least a couple of them will screw it up and cause developers headaches.

Meanwhile 20 years from now, Flash and Silverlight and whoever else will be clicking champagne glasses and laughing, "Great job HTML5, I remember when I was doing that back in 2010.  Good times!"

Reality is harsh... but at least HTML5 is shiny.

There are still weaknesses with HTML5 but you have to admit that some of the stuff you can do with it is pretty freakin' cool.

Browser makers need to really get on board with this new stuff. I'm hoping that auto-updates in modern browsers will allow legacy stuff to phase out faster (it would be a HUGE boon to web devs) but it doesn't really seem to work that way, especially for people using IE. Can you believe that almost 10% of the web population still uses IE6? Jesus, that was the shittiest browser ever created. I want to eSlap every damned person who hasn't at least updated to 7 (because asking them all to use their brain and switch to FF is asking too much).

An <eslap> tag would be awesome.

The biggest problem with HTML 5 is the adoption of the <video> tag, which is meant to replace Flash. However, browsers like Firefox and some others use an open source codec to playback video, sites like Youtube prefer the proprietary codecs, citing quality concerns. Ultimately, if they can't decide on a standard HTML 5 won't take off like it should.

Yeah, it is kind of cool.

Here's where I'll go against the norm:  IE6 was freaking awesome as a browser... in the day.  The whole chain of IE4, IE5, and IE6 being awesome (along with bundling) were what established Internet Explorer as the browser to beat.  It was the best browser on the market.  Microsoft was coming out swinging with redesigns and new features while Netscape Navigator fell further and further behind (the redesign killed it).

Sadly, Internet Explorer 6 is old and has lived on for too long.  People do need to upgrade, but it's sad that a great browser will leave such an awful memory on so many people.