Yeah, exactly. I started coding HTML in 1999 and soon moved to JavaScript and DHTML which quickly got forgotten until lately the AJAX wave started. My love affair with Flash was only a very short one. My hope in SVG never materialized. Before that HTML was dull and outdated. We still use only 5 fonts for web copy etc. and it's already ten years later.

The Microsoft monopoly has killed progress.

Seeing Apple blocking Opera from the iPhone and another behemoth, Google being the main contender I don't see a much better "mobile" future. The market will soon "consolidate" and another monopoly will make HTML dull again.

We need a really free web with really free software. I don't think the "mobile" one will be it. Maybe the "Internet of things" will be the one that frees us from the shackles of stifling monopolist corporate rule.