Most vendors would certainly think of providing a version of their pages using these new technologies if there was a significant audience they could not reach any other way. Right now that audience is a fast-growing number of iPhone and Android phone owners.

The explosion of mobile web browsing alongside improvements to rich media handling in standards-based content runtimes has provided us with an opportunity to relegate Flash to the role of a legacy technology used for IE compatibility, for the benefit of a more free and more technologically sound web.

Or it maybe had - until Apple proved its lack of vision and promised Flash to iPhone users. We will see. And no, I don't care any more for Silverlight than I care for Flash.

PS.: Tear just froze up while composing this post. I wonder if hanging while disagreeing with you is a built-in feature .



No offense, but AJAX refers to a set of techniques, not a technology, and as such is not distinct from HTML 5 or the other technologies I listed. Rather, the AJAX techniques are used with these technologies. I recommend you read up more on web technology. Though I find that most Flash/Silverlight guys tend to care little about standards, sadly.