There is a lot of talk about the consequences for Flash of these recent announcements, but little attention is given to what this will mean for HTML5 adoption.

There is a lot of talk about the consequences for Flash of these recent announcements, but little attention is given to what this will mean for HTML5 adoption. I, for one, am very excited. If Adobe can do for HTML5 half of what they have done with the Flash toolchain then we are going to see a powerful platform indeed, and sooner than anyone would have dared hope until recently. A Flash-like animation environment and a Flex UI toolkit, all outputting to canvas? Sign me the hell up right now.