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This article could be the press release (or footnotes to it) that Jobs never wrote or would write. What I mean is, when Steve Jobs announced a couple of years ago that Apple would go HTML5 instead of Flash, there was great oohing and ahhing but no concise explanation for those of us lesser mortals as to why HTML5 is the better path. And this article does it in a couple of hundred words.Specifically: 1) From iPhone to desktop, it's one and the same document; 2) Document files are smaller and load faster; 3) SEMANTIC WEB accessible. Our poor semantic web, so visionary and so non-starter. Perhaps the growth of HTML5 will save it.


Actually, Jobs did write in some detail on this very subject:

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

He specifically mentioned the same points you brought up, plus a few others.


Thanks for sharing that. I had heard it summarized before but don't know how i missed that whole thing.


Perhaps the growth of HTML5 will save it.

I fervently hope not.




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