HTML5 hype started strong out of the gate because of the video and audio tags, and canvas slightly after. Those HTML tags were worth the hype.
Flash's reputation was quite low at the time and people were ready to finally move on from plugins being required on the web. (Though the "battle" then shifted to open vs. closed codecs.)
Flash's reputation was quite low at the time and people were ready to finally move on from plugins being required on the web. (Though the "battle" then shifted to open vs. closed codecs.)