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There is a lot brewing with HTML 5.  I will leave it to the geeks 
on the list to explain what's going on, but I thought this demo 
page on Scribd said a lot:

http://j.mp/94NfUB

It's pretty clear that this is a genuine advance in a lot of 
respects. It certainly poses a challenge to users of Flash, but 
more fundamentally, it may get a lever under PDF, which is still 
the common currency of scholarly communications.  And for 
publishers, HTML 5 brings with it some relief on questions of 
copying.

This is an evolving story.  I am looking forward to reading more 
about this in the tech blogs.

Joe Esposito