It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.
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The productivity and expressiveness of Flash remain advantages for the Web community even as HTML advances.
Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.
A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices.
Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet.
I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.
AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected.
We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.
Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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