HTML5 and JavaScript are where the puck is going

A nice post, along the lines of our early post “HTML5 Gaming: the sound of inevitability” talking about why HTML5 and JavaScript are the future.

It starts with a Steve Job’s quote:

“There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.” – Steve Jobs

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