There is now, less and less reason to use Flash on a website as the new HTML5  standard is starting to be implemented by the browser vendors. How does HTML 5 sound the death knell for Flash? Let’s list some of the major features of both side by side.

So as you can see all bases are covered. But, HTML5’s ascendancy is all dependent upon browser implementation. Again we’re heading into an era of competing browser technologies as some browser vendors choose differing implementations. HTML5 video is a good example. FireFox only supports, the Ogg Theora format, while the others are going with H.264. This hardly makes developers’ or content providers’ lives easy.

But somewhere along the way, everything will harmonize. And at that point, Flash will be history. It’s inevitable. Why would you mess about with a third party plugin when the browser will natively do all the things you require?

Multiple file uploads were for a long time a reason to have Flash on your site. It was just so frustrating to use standard HTML forms to upload multiple files. You had to select each individual file one at a time. But now, along comes HTML5 with multiple file upload. Progress indicators are now also possible. There is even an example of a drag and drop multiple file upload. The future of useful web applications is bright, but Flash won’t be there.

Does the Incognito Window in Chrome work the same way? Surprisingly, no — and this is where one starts evaluating the browser makers’ design decisions. If you exit the Incognito Window (”Nothing, honey, wasn’t doing anything…just checking statistics”)re-enter it again, and then re-enter the page you were on, you’ll find your shopping cart is intact, right where you left it. So exiting that window did not erase your trail.

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Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 1: How private is private browsing?

Firefox 3.5 adds support for the HTML 5 audio and video elements and now fully supports the HTML 5 offline resource specification. Rich internet applications here we come.

The full list of improvements can be found on the Mozilla page Firefox 3.5 for Developers.

I found this blog post “Video Tag and Subtitles” which demonstrates the new video tag, but also uses JavaScript to add subtitles.

The demonstration requires a standards compliant browser supporting the HTML5 video tag, which currently is Firefox 3.1 / 3.5 or the nightly build versions of Safari (Webkit) or Opera.