[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]
“The core idea behind HTML 5, the latest proposed
version of the Web’s foundation markup language, is to make all
resources, not just text and links, widely and uniformly usable
across all platforms. Well, that was the theory. In practice,
things aren’t going to change that much from today’s Web, with its
reliance on proprietary media formats and methods.“In the 20 years since HTML appeared, companies — including
Adobe with Flash, Microsoft with Silverlight and Apple with
QuickTime — have added their own proprietary media formats to the
Web. In addition, other businesses — such as Google with Gears and
Oracle/Sun with JavaFX — have created technologies for the Web
that make it possible to create offline and user-side-based Web
applications. This is all fine, but these proprietary formats and
application platforms get in the way of the universal use vision
for the Web.”