I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.
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We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.
The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.
I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.
If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to create an interactive Internet; sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail could be crippled without it.
Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.
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