HTML Canvas is Apples proposed replacement to Flash / Silverlight. Interesting.
http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspage=36134
More Flash hater points of interest:
http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/everyone_to_their_bases_-_flash_is_under_attack/
Why Microsoft will NEVER support the HTML 5 video and audio tag as they are currently defined (one word — PATENTS):
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3828901
Some more details about HTML 5
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/W3C_Drops_Audio_and_Video_Codec_Requirements_From_HTML_5
A quote that concerns me the most:
“Now that the web has been elevated to a more powerful computing platform by HTML5, Berners-Lee says it has also given rise to complicated security issues.
“You got a piece of code from site A, and you’re person B running a browser you got from company C, and that code wants to access data stored with company E for the purposes of printing it on a printer owned by company D — How do you build that so that it’s not susceptible to all kinds of nasty attacks?”
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Tim_Berners-Lee_Sees_Promise__Challenges_in_HTML5
At least Adobe would release new versions of the Flash player when security issues were identified in record time — explain to me how the HTML 5 spec will change to adapt to issues of security if it’s taken them 6 years so far and they still can’t solidify the spec.