Could HTML 5 lead to the downfall of Adobe’s Flash?  One can only hope.  I have always said that our dependence on one company’s technology can not be a good thing for web designers, web developers or general web site users either. 

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Since it was introduced in the mid-’90s, Adobe’s Flash has remained one of the most popular ways for developers to create animations, video and complex interactive features for the Web–regardless of what browser or operating system an end user is running. According to Adobe, which makes the Flash Player and various Flash development tools, 98 percent of Internet-connected desktop computers have Flash installed, and 95 percent have the most recent version, Flash Player 10.

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