I specifically prefaced my comment by saying "regardless of the whole Apple/Flash issue". However, i'll bite. Why would I be gullible for believing that HTML 5

I specifically prefaced my comment by saying "regardless of the whole Apple/Flash issue". However, i'll bite. Why would I be gullible for believing that HTML 5 (and by extention, the APIs such as canvas and offline storage) is newer than Flash? Acording to Wikipedia, the first working draft of HTML 5 was published in 2008. Flash has been around for a lot longer than this.