Err, the title is supposed to read "What Technologies Might Be Next [to bite the dust]?" I guess. A replacement for timed/declarative animation on the Web is,

Err, the title is supposed to read "What Technologies Might Be Next [to bite the dust]?" I guess. A replacement for timed/declarative animation on the Web is, of course, still needed (if for ads alone), but it looks like browsers/HTML5/JS libs are deemed good enough so instead of multimedia runtimes/engines we're going to see authoring tools. Though audio/video sync and the state of SVG (and of SVG animation on FF in particular) leaves much to be desired IMO.