I know it doesn’t apply, I’m just excited!

First, it’s like comparing apples with oranges. HTML (go and read up on its history) was created to serve static content with very low level of interactivity, if any, via Web browser. On the other hand, Flash/Flex was created/architected to serve highly dynamic and interactive content, like desktop apps, via Web browser. Second, (don’t get fooled by the marketing campaigns) HTML5 by itself doesn’t mean anything. It requires highly complex and bloated Javascript and CSS to mimic even the simple things in Flash/Flex. Let’s not even get into the browser compatibility issues, all of the various middleware technologies (not so compatible with each other) needed to “push” the data/business logic to the app running inside the browser, and deep lack of tools to generate highly interactive, dynamic, and sophisticated and professional looking content for HTML.

If you disagree or can’t see what the differences are, go and knock yourself out trying to create a highly interactive, dynamic web, and sophisticated content with HTML5+Javascript+CSS+SomeMiddleWareTechnology. And compare that with the same created with Flash/Flex. BTW, good luck debugging and maintaining code written in HTML5+JavaScript+OthersRequired. Javascript frameworks (Dojo,JQuery, and so on that are not compatible with each other…) would help but they themselves are not enough with added complexity.

The point here is not that one technology is better than the other as a whole. Each was created to serve a different purpose. Using Flash/Flex for static content is an overkill. Using HTML for dynamic/interactive content is a really big stretch. Let’s not mix up hammers with screw drivers. Can’t help but feel that we are going one step forward to go two steps backward here.

BTW, on mobile platforms, native apps (iOS and Android) look and feel the best, not some HTML or Flash app running side the browser. Anyway, sorry to lose a very good technology but just hope that we know what we are getting into or losing before getting swayed by some marketing geniuses. Not sure about Google, but can’t see how Apple and Microsoft can really make money (at least directly) by pushing “open” standards like HTML and Javascript, other than killing Flash since it has more than 90% penetration. Therefore, can’t see HTML5+Javascript really maturing anytime soon. If that was the case and HTML+Javascript was that simple/easy/very productive for the developers to produce highly interactive and dynamic content like Flash/Flex , most Flash/Flex stuff should have been replaced or converted already.