HTML vs. Flash: Can a turf war be avoided?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 4, 2010 11:25 AM EDT
CNET; By Stephen Shankland
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After years of HTML standardization disarray, browser makers Apple, Opera, Mozilla, and most recently Google now are hammering out new directions for Web standards. Perhaps the most visible HTML5 aspect is built-in support for audio and video, but there are other HTML abilities under way: storing data on a computer for use by an application, Web Sockets for periodically pushing updates to a browser, Web Workers for letting Web programs perform multiple tasks at once, and Canvas for better two-dimensional graphics.... It's far from game-over for Flash, though.

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