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I don't see how HTML5 makes authoring tools (commercial or not) redundant. Do you expect people that are relying on visual authoring software to migrate to writing HTML5/JS/CSS in a text editor "just because"?

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I meant their particular authoring tools, which output Flash rather than HTML5.

They could adjust them to output HTML5 with Flash fallback, and that would be a Good Thing. But it seems odd to keep on going with a poorly integrated[1] plugin which duplicates the work done in open HTML+JS runtimes available everywhere from desktops to smartphones[2].

1) eg Flash 'cookies' which don't get wiped when you delete your cookies in the browser.

2) And 'superphones', of course. :-)

So we agree that there is a lot of room for innovation in the space of tools enabling people to output to the HTML5 stack.

Absolutely. And it would be a good thing, since every new internet connected platform is going to implement an HTML5 runtime, and the more people who can create stuff the better.

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