It’s the Clash of the Titans as Apple and Adobe begin to square off around the iPad and its lack of support for Flash.  Steve Jobs calls Adobe “lazy” and Flash “buggy”: http://tr.im/MzJf.  Adobe’s CTO says HTML 5, which Apple wants to supplant Flash, will  throw the web “back to the dark ages of video…with incompatibility issues”: http://tr.im/MzJW.  There’s no doubt that Flash is responsible in large part for the ubiquity of video on the web today and that it works reliably across browsers in a way HTML 5 can’t right now.  But it will be interesting to see how this debate plays out over time, and toolkits are developed around HTML 5.  In the meantime, you can get a sneak peek at a sample HTML 5 player here (thanks @shepherdfx): http://tr.im/MzMB.  Would be interested to hear what your experiences are with this video (just don’t try to play it in IE or Firefox yet—it doesn’t work in either of those browsers) as well as your thoughts on this topic.