To addition to HTML5 vs flash Battle. Please wait for Flash 10.1 and try to do this Flaemo in html which is 40kb in size and contain all graphic assets.

Thank you for reminding me what a nerd I am for recognizing pictures of obscure sci-fi critters.

You really should, he is a legend and still in corporation shadow.
I am really happy he wrote a book about it. (Book is already framed )

I'll be brief. Apple has never exposed the API's (until last week or so) for acceleration of video, animation, et al. But Windows has exposed those API's a long time ago... thus Flash being faster on the PC when accelerated via GPU, et al.

Apple has a somewhat bad record with updating their contributions to Webkit often deploying into Safari for weeks/months and then detailing their changes - meaning they've given themselves a lead over other webkit based browsers. This happened mostly around the move from Safari 2 to Safari 3.x. To admission, they have gotten better.

H.264... Jobs has a reason to support it. $5 million USD per year for a H.264 license.

Apple has kept their API's on their desktop and iPhone OS quite restricted. What's so open about a restricted platform?

Flash isn't perfect. But if you deny the API's for it to run properly, it will be like Java... a layer above the OS at almost all times.

There is/are multi-touch API's for Flash. Hover isn't supported, true. But "no multi-touch"... wrong. I've built Flash based kiosk systems in the past that supported multi-touch from the vendor... first one I can think of was in 2007 for me.

Correcting the lies.

Worst part of it though... love how the open source crowd is effectively getting "fooled" a bit. H.264 isn't open... Ogg Theora is. And Apple has struck out at it so many times, almost making it a non-option due to multiple direct attacks.

h.264 is open, but not free. And sadly, Theora is behind the times and itself is likely beset by unexplored patents. No one is really willing to find out, however, which is why it's largely unsupported (directly) by vendors.

Google buying On2 and porting VP8 is much more promising, assuming they do something with it and it catches on, but it likely still sits under the same spectre as Theora.

All true you said, and I can add there is a couple of companies in London that already doing software for multi-tuch bar tables base on Flash from years. And again if we talking about future Flash 10.1 with all it's features must take place in the game.

How you can ban any VW Golf running on your country's streets because is not eco friendly anymore with version 1 in mind only.

Okay, so after about 4 years, Steve could fint a good excuse and wrote it down.

Who cares? The N900 has Flash, and everyone is happy.

While we are on the subject of flash,could someone please check if BBC News Live at news.bbc.co.uk plays without lag on the N900. This used to play perfectly on my N900 but in the past month, I notice it now lags badly. Have they increased the resolution I wonder?. Somebody please help. Thanks

interesting, given some potential signs that apple is throttling back on osx.

anything software can sadly have submarine patents waiting to strike.

heck, was there not some company that got sued over a program when the patent used to sue them was about a mechanical system but written overly broad?