Quote Originally Posted by loydall View Post
Flash still has its place of course but the days of animated flash menus are over.. thank god.
Except on web applications, which seem logically to become more wide-spread as people use mobile devices instead of desktop machines.

Quote Originally Posted by david petley View Post
I don't think I agree. For a start, unlike previous verions of HTML, version 5 is meant to be completely backward compatible. This was not the case for earlier versions. I think this time they might be closer to getting it right.
Being meant to be backward compatible and actually implemented that way by browser developers who have zero obligation to do so are two different things.

Quote Originally Posted by david petley View Post
I feel confident most of the browser application developers will work towards more consistent support for all HTML5 features once they are finalised ( as you said, HTML5 is still just a work in progress - until early to mid 2012 I think).
What has changed that makes you think HTML5 implementation will be any different than the poo-fest browser implementation has been to date?

Quote Originally Posted by david petley View Post
...possibly, but there already seems to be more consistent support for HTML5 in all browsers than with previous versions. Maybe it will go in the other direction, and there will be fewer compatibility issues.
There is? That hasn't been our experience at all and we do a lot of each kind of development. Feature support for HTML5 in browsers is currently all over the place. Also, more and more people are using mobile devices to browse, making the variations of implementations that much worse. We've had to work directly with hardware manufacturers on changing low-level architecture just to get apps that they want installed on their own phones to work.

The whole mess is laid out well here: http://html5test.com/results.html