HTML 5: Could It Kill Flash and Silverlight?
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/html-5-could-it-kill-flash-and-silverlight-291

Krill, Paul
InfoWorld
2009

Abstract:

HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.