Good luck on making that HTML5 query a db... or be secure.

I'm sure by 2022 when HTML5 finally is a standard, Flash will be long dead and gone and MPEG-LA will be raking in the dough due to licensing.

Same licensing that Mozilla has not succumbed to directly since it's 5 million bucks for them to pay.

HTML5 video is a great thing. But let's be honest, HTML5 isn't ready for primetime in no stretch of the imagination yet. So far, the absolute best HTML5 demos have been more jQuery than HTML5. Canvas is a beast to deal with, in terms of animation or control.

Sad you equate Flash to just online videos... or worse, ads. Or that you equate HTML5 to just embedded videos... or worse, a full featured solution.