Fighting back with fire: Firefox 4 closes the gap, Chrome threatens Opera’s lead
This past month, both Firefox 4 and Google’s newly renumbered Chrome 8 have been trying to achieve the same efficiency gains, in the same way: Their focus is the HTML 5 Canvas element, which threatens Adobe Flash’s leadership in rich Web graphics. Today, many developers rely on Flash to produce simple things such as pie charts and org charts; and when they want their Web site to do more than just sit there and show links, many choose to abandon HTML altogether and relocate their entire sites to the Flash platform. If Canvas were not only just as smooth as Flash but easy to learn, ubiquitous, and even better, free, one huge selling point for Flash could be wiped off the map.