As much as we see and depend on Flash everyday, well, it is becoming increasingly irrelevant as HTML5 is being rolled out across the webosphere and support being implemented into web browsers. Soon, with an HTML5-compliant browser (Currently there’s only Google Chrome and Safari that supports it), when you’ll visit YouTube the embedded media player won’t be a poky Flash player anymore but instead something speedier, lightweight and no need for extra proprietary plug-ins such as Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight to run; that’s what HTML5 will bring.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’d be an hypocrite to deny Flash entirely since my own site has a little bit of it and when used moderately its nicely acceptable but what kills me is when I see sites built entirely in Flash, taking forever to load, unstable, just freakin’ annoying. And of course there’s advertisement banners all over the web in Flash, jumping in your face or auto-maximizing inside my browser; drives me nuts!

Anyhow, I don’t think Flash will disappear overnight but it’s good to see measures are being taken to make the web faster, more accessible and without the need of proprietary crap. Amen.