Snydeq writes "While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the quiescent to eat these vendors' lunches, expiation Web autobiography based on an traffic
notes:the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry standard. In fact, one expressed goal of the benchmark is to move the Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX. 'It would be a terrible step backward if humanity's major growth scaffolding was abused substance by a single vendor the way that earlier platforms such as Windows have been,' says HTML 5 co-editor Ian Hickson, a Google employee. But whether HTML 5 and its Canvas mechanization will displace proprietary plug-ins 'really depends on what developers do,' says Firefox specialized lead Vlad Vukicevic. It also depends on Microsoft, the only company involute in the HTML 5 effort that is both a browser contributor and an RIA tool developer. 'That's a big elephant in the room for them because you can imagine the Silverlight team whole existence is to add functionality in. [But] if information highway Explorer puts it already in there, why do we have Silverlight?' asks Mozilla's Dion Almaer." The RIA guys are quoted as saying they're not worried, because HTML 5 + CSS 3 is 10 years out. Are they just whistling in the dark?

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