Thanks to Flashblock I don’t waste a lot of time loading pointless Flash animations in my browser. The few times I do enable Flash it’s usually to watch video. With HTML5, though, this too will not be necessary because HTML5 includes a video tag. Rejoice! Adobe, probably not so pleased.

Back in the day (OK, the 90s) there was a thing called VMRL. Great things were predicted for 3D content on the web. Meetings were held at SIGGRAPH. Consortiums were formed. Consumers said “Meh!”.