WebApps and Games running Flash have been bothered by Apple’s refusal to support the plugin and its increasing bloat. HTML5 was touted as its replacement, which I never quite bought into. Until I learned that’s not where it really shines.
Here is where it does: http://www.diesel.com/. Dynamic, animated and very responsive site – look at the nice UI with jQuery, advance styling with CSS, no refreshing but still maintaining bookmarkable URLs (a pet peeve of mine with flash sites). All this, without a drop of Flash or 3rd party plugins.
Not only did the devs save a few hundred bucks on the really buggy (in my experience) Adobe Flash, but they can instantly tweak the behavior and style without having to re-compile anything. In a nutshell – it looks great, it’s innovative, and it’s easier/cheaper/less annoying to make than a Flash equivalent. Thanks to HTML5.
Sure, HTML5 still has some way to go before it’s refined, and browser support is still spotty, but I finally have a concrete example of how it can completely blow Flash out of the water. And with advent of browser auto-updates and even Microsoft pushing latest versions, it may not be too long before HTML5 becomes truly viable without ugly hacks.
Tis an exciting time to be a web developer.
You might also find it interesting. A letter from Steve Jobs to Adobe:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/