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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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