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I am very excited for HTML 5. As a flash hater, I cannot wait for mainstream adaptation of HTML 5.

The biggest benefit of HTML 5, for me at least, is the ability to embed H.264 video into webpages. In my experience, flash is horribly inefficient. Flash was never built to be a platform for video, no matter what they may say. Flash video is horribly inefficient and it uses far too much processor power, even when it is GPU accellerated. H.264 video is perfect, because it can be decoded easily by processors and it is often much higher quality than flash video.

If you want to see some of the things that HTML 5 is compatible, check out Chrome Experiments. Although the name may be Chrome Experiments, these work in all HTML 5 compatible browsers.

I hope that HTML 5 will replace flash entirely in ALL uses and applications in web browsers. Please, flash, go away!

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