Opera Shivs Flash, Brohugs HTML5

Aw, hell no. Shots fired! Opera Software has weighed in on the Apple versus Flash debate. And the makers of the clever lightweight browsing system have kinda, sorta taken Apple's side, just like Microsoft did. The future, Opera says, is HTML5.

Opera product analyst Phillip Gronvold is behind this revelation, and he softened the blow to Adobe by noting Opera will continue to support Flash technology inside its system for the future, as it's integral to the current "full" Web experience. "Flash...