Interesting times for Linux Flash support

Flash is still the only way to use webcam or P2P from browser. Standards are evolving to make it possible to do that without Flash, but they are not even stabilized, let alone deployed!

So Flash is needed for the next 2-3 years at least...

Instead of trying to comply with Flash, FLOSS community should rather try and create something new and unique which have the same functionality. I am not sure exactly what HTML5 will be able to do (except playing videos and audio), but I think Flash has better functionality. And that is a negative thing. I am looking forward to when the Flash "era" is over.

I have been reading a bit about these "Telepresence" robots that can be controlled and streamed through a website with Flash installed, is this something that HTML5 could also achieve?

I'm not familiar with the current web technologies, so I don't know if it's possible to reimplement Flash-based online games in some other tool, but I think that there might be more players of the various Flash games on Facebook than Linux desktop users...

On the other hand, Lightspeed seems like an interesting architecture regardless of the particular language specification being used. I could imagine having Lightspeed in place being valuable in making W3C standards more real. That is, if Lightspeed ends up efficient, open-source, and portable, it should be relatively straightforward to start thinking about replacing front ends from it to make something that does Javascript, HTML5 Canvas, and DOM instead of Flash, and then proposals for accelerated graphics in Canvas can come with making Lightspeed implement them, which would avoid the issue that the W3C often has where they work out a spec and some parts of it never get implemented by anyone.