RuneScape dumps Java for HTML5

It sounds like their new engine has better graphics, and, for whatever reason, they're attributing this to HTML5.

In the video[1] embedded on the page[2] linked from the article, Runescape devs claim:

  > The technology behind HTML 5 has allowed us to really push the boundaries.
  > You can see the engine at work when we compare Runescape to Runescape 3.
  > Here we can see Canafis. In current Runescape the fog is pulled way in
  > you can't see what's in the distance,
  > you have to rely on that little signpost in the front.
  > In HTML 5 the signpost is still there but you can also see the town,
  > this is there to guide you it just looks much more beautiful.
  > With all that extra draw distance we can now do proper skies and weather effects.
  ...
  > You can also see the colour palette at work here which really helps to brighten
  > the place up.
  > So here we are just outside Falador, we have duller colours the greens and browns 
  > that's all we really have in variation,
  > this is the same area in HTML 5 and you can see that variety just come to life.
  > We've yellows and greens, blues are deeper. We have the whites we have the sun
  > shining off those whites to really brighten them up.