So I know HTML5 is the \"replacement\" for Flash...however it\'s obviously not m

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So I know HTML5 is the "replacement" for Flash...however it's obviously not mainstream just yet......but what else is it supposed to replace.

I ask this because web-dev has always been a secret kinda side-passion of mine (even though I a firmware programmer mostly doing C/Java stuff). And anyway I want to pursue a side thing at doing web design (I know basic XHTML/CSS + some CSS3)

But what exactly is I guess...."pointless" to study? JavaScript I assume will always be a huge part of web design? (HTML5 isn't replacing that is it?) What about Ajax and CSS itself?)

And then there's Flash....not sure if thats really worth putting effort into? Also there's Adobe Flex/Air......I'm a bit confused if you can't tell.

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HTML 5 is not a replacement for Flash. Its various technologies provide alternative mechanisms for doing many or even all of the things that you can do in a Flash app, but it's not correct to say that it is the 'anything' for Flash.

Both CSS and JavaScript are still extremely important technologies in the HTML 5 toolkit. You still need to style your interfaces, and CSS is how you do it. You still need to provide client-side programmability, and JavaScript is how you do it.

In fact, JavaScript becomes even more important than it already is in HTML 5. The HTML 5 standard defines a very rich and powerful set of services, and they are all exposed and programmed against with JavaScript.

Check out this great HTML 5 demo web site to get a better idea of what it is all about.

It's probably worth mentioning that Google Gears is one product that is very definitely being phased out because it will be replaced by HTML 5. I can't think of anything else that is being made truly obsolete by it.

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