HTML5 is the new “it” protocol on the Internet. Among other things, it is an alternative to Adobe’s Flash for displaying content through a Web browser. No less an industry authority than the late Steve Jobs declared in 2010 that browsers on Apple devices such as the iPad would support HTML5 and not Flash. But as HTML5 gains wider adoption some of its security flaws are beginning to get noticed, including the WebSocket specification that renders Web pages more quickly than does Flash.
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