We all remember when the Internet ran on Flash. It was exciting, it was interactive, it made us forget that the colors and sounds we were presented with were ultimately the same ones and zeroes of script compilers and logic engines. Flash gave art a seat at the web design table as well as expanding the functions of what a website could do. But it was not without its problems. Running Flash as a browser plugin generally means running a whole program on top of another program, and the CPU usage it requires tends to dwarf that of the browser it's running in. It's also proprietary, and when a rift formed between Apple and Adobe, Flash found itself locked out of iPhones and iPads.  Read more

"Wallaby" conversion is here. Will it survive? Time will tell.
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There has been an intense and sometimes vitriolic debate between proponents of Adobe's proprietary Flash platform and supporters of the open HTML 5 draft. At stake, is  who will control the creation of rich media applications and content delivery on the internet.