Yahoo Unveils Webtop Plugin, BrowserPlus, Before It’s Ready

I was thinking is that possible to use Gears, BrowserPlus and Flash to do something useful.

Actually, I hope HTML5 dies. It's horrible. Innovating by writing standards documents is going to get us nowhere. (Some things look great in standards documents, but don't work in real life. That's why people still use tables for layout.)

All we can hope for is that the people with new ideas keep them open source. Then we can standardize after we see what works and doesn't work. (I think we're OK here; Microsoft is in a poor position. They write their plugins for Windows only, but most web designers use OS X and most programmers use Linux. So although most users can use MS technology, the people making the content can't.)