Quote Originally Posted by jAQUAN View Post
Well my dream scenario is a single highly regulated core (preferably webkit) which each browser manufacturer would wrap. The DOM would render exactly the same everywhere but they'd each be free to add all their own bells and whistles. Chrome could still implement V8 and all of their google integration awesomeness, firefox could still support plugins and IE could still manage to **** things up all they want. Those features are really the only place browsers compete anyway.
+1000

After a few years in this "post-flash" market, I now believe that the depressed economy is a larger culprit than I had thought. Flash hasn't fared well because many clients have scaled back on more ambitious digital marketing projects where the advantages of Flash over HTML5 become more apparent.

If HTML5 "killed and replaced" Flash as some people claim, we should expect that budgets that used to be spent on Flash would now be spent on HTML5 projects. We do enough business out there to observe with confidence that that isn't the case.

Unfortunately, the economy doesn't look like it's coming back any time soon. In fact, it looks like it's going to get a lot worse during the next 5-10 years. So, yeah, it IS getting tough out there.