HTML5, AJAX, Flash and A{ppl,dob}e

discussions about the new HTML standard :

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/

some cool stuff, because as I have learned, the indirect effect would make Flash and similar technologies obsolete, by enhancing what you can do with HTML.

I am rough-specing the description, but the behind the scenes say the low down is that Apple and Google are in charge of the HTML5 specification and Apple does not particularly like Adobe ( current owners of Flash ) :

http://mashable.com/2010/02/01/steve-jobs-google-adobe/

I may have been getting more excited than I should have been. I think HTML5 does introduce a lot of new dynamic content, but the point is that AJAX really is what they were talking about for the most part. AJAX ( which is under HTML after all ) already does replace a lot of the cool interactive interfaces that people are using flash for. The other subset of uses of flash, interactive youtube videos, may be more accessible by HTML5 if their embedding technology improves. Frankly I don't know, but working with existing standards like MPEG is great and the ability for Javascript to wonderfully capture what the user is doing could be enough of a "layer" to make the embedded MPEG content interactive so as to implement what Flash is doing in a non-standard way.