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There are a num­ber of unset­tling trends in the world of web devel­op­ment, and one of them is not HTML5.  One major one is the num­ber of for­merly “cred­i­ble” web news enti­ties tout­ing HTML5 as the sole and right­eous assas­sin of Flash. Since Google I/O, a devel­op­ers con­fer­ence aimed at pro­mot­ing and demon­strat­ing new Google tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts, there have been a flurry of mis­in­formed, thinly researched arti­cles pro­claim­ing that we should go ahead and start mak­ing bur­ial arrange­ments for the Flash Plat­form. I’ve already touched on this once, before Google I/O, but since the web infor­ma­tion giant has openly encour­aged the adop­tion and stan­dard­iza­tion of HTML5, tech media sites and oth­ers who seem­ingly have been wish­ing for some­thing like this, have decided to post some of the most uncred­i­ble, bla­tantly one-sided, and down­right wrong pieces of “jour­nal­ism” I’ve seen since the 9th grade. Need evi­dence?
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