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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I agree 100%. And I also think HTML5 is not yet the answer until all of the main browsers have it available. The true answer is not to use fancy animations and other such stuff that doesn't need to be there. Too many people put up flash where flash doesn't need to be. Heck, in a lot of cases, an animated GIF would do better.
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I'll try to keep my fancy animations off your lawn - as long as you keep your animated gifs off mine!
In all seriousness, I think it is fine to use HTML5 or flash in non-critical websites for entertainment (though not for menus, please!). Just as gaming requires the user to have the latest hardware, it's perfectly reasonable to expect a user who wants to be entertained by your website to go and get a recent browser, or at least keep theirs up-to-date.
For mission critical sites, e.g., governments, banks, etc, they are only now starting to embrace javascript. And tediously at that. Ugh! And you will almost never catch them using flash.
To get back on track...textbooks are going to be mission critical in the future, and that's the only real concern relevant to mobileread and video for now. As the iPad and the Entourage Edge are pretty much the only dedicated (ish) readers at this point to support embedded videos, they can fight out formats between themselves.