Although I do think HTML5 is the future, its not going to get here pretty. Firefox is not implementing support for h.264 as its not open, and basically what makes flash great, is that its like java. It works on any machine with flash runtime. HTML5 means the OS has to support the codec and its very likely that consumers will see websites that use all kinds of video codecs that are supported on some systems but not others. Even though adobe supports hardware acceleration, its still an alpha product if you ask me. Security and Optimization have so much further to go....
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Although I do think HTML5 is the future, its not going to get here pretty. Firefox is not implementing support for h.264 as its not open, and basically what makes flash great, is that its like java. It works on any machine with flash runtime. HTML5 means the OS has to support the codec and its very likely that consumers will see websites that use all kinds of video codecs that are supported on some systems but not others. Even though adobe supports hardware acceleration, its still an alpha product if you ask me. Security and Optimization have so much further to go....