Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
the combination will allows many of the web applications that have been traditionally associated with flash, but without needing flash, so i consider that a FTW situation.
Sure. But my point here is that while it's probably great fun to be able to play with and develop stuff in JavaScript, it's not enough of an upgrade to be compelling for Flash shops to move over, or for old websites to upgrade. It's also not yet ubiquitous enough, and there are plenty of rough edges. For instance the video element is simply no contest for a Flash, VLC or MPlayer plugin in terms of supported formats, features and performance. (My view is that the video element has been bungled from the start: it should inherently never have been anything more than a semantic overlay on top of plugins -- an accessible replacement for the object/embed mess.)