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How is self-interest even relevant here? HTML5, even if it's being promoted in an Apple-biased way, is still far better for the industry than Flash is. The Reg can gripe all it wants, but the point of the Apple showcase is that 90% of what Flash is used for is being obsoleted, and Apple is 100% right about that.

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Except these demos were not HTML5 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/06/intellectual-honest...

HTML5 is a moving target that's changing everyday. Until the spec is 100% completed, finalized, and sealed, there's never going to be interoperability.

And interoperability is only one goal of HTML5. The other goal, in my opinion, is shiny features like Canvas, CSS Animation, and 3D Transforms. And Apple is doing quite well at those.

We get it. HTML5 was an inaccurate label to apply to the techniques Apple used in the showcase. But what's your point? What is Apple demonstrating here that isn't a valid example of how HTML is going to displace Flash? HTML5 is going to do video as well as Flash. HTML5 is going to do type and layout better than Flash.

So your point is that lying is OK as long as it goes on par with your agenda?

No, that wasn't my point.

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