The Flash platform has been taking body blows lately. First Apple, then Scribd, publicly abandon it; now ARM's marketing VP is blaming a delay in ARM smartbooks on the continuing unsuitability of Flash for the subnotebook market. But how ready is HTML5 to take over from Flash? Tim Bray offers a cautionary appraisal of the not-yet-a-standard's state of grace. While Flash may be on the way out (or so legions of its detractors hope), it is still important in many corners of the Web. Here a branding expert demonstrates that the sites of 10 out of 10 leading worldwide brands don't display on the iPad mdash; because they're coded in Flash, of course.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F05%2F07%2F1259205%2FIs-HTML5-Ready-To-Take-Over-From-Flash" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Is+HTML5+Ready+To+Take+Over+From+Flash %3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcNjxRo" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/05/07/1259205/Is-HTML5-Ready-To-Take-Over-From-Flash?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yiaxWvecLHnjC_xkpVXms2fX6nI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yiaxWvecLHnjC_xkpVXms2fX6nI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yiaxWvecLHnjC_xkpVXms2fX6nI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yiaxWvecLHnjC_xkpVXms2fX6nI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/FIgkptzsbrc" height="1" width="1"/

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