Canvas is more capable than Flash, it’s supported by everything already, it’s well sandboxed, it’s apparently faster than the alternatives, the technique in que

Canvas is more capable than Flash, it’s supported by everything already, it’s well sandboxed, it’s apparently faster than the alternatives, the technique in question now has the backing of a powerful industry leader, and the underlying technology is an open standard so it’s even got moral high ground. And it’s possible we only managed to escape Flash-hell thanks to the fortuitous self-interest of Apple, so let’s not be complacent by assuming we’ll escape the next trap. Having said all that, I actually like the idea of separating web applications from web documents and I don’t at all begrudge web application developers from doing what it takes to improve their applications. I just know it will be abused. The best I can hope for is that it leads to some re-focus on HTML as a stable and finished document language.