I'd say that HTML5 is the tip of that particular iceberg.<p>I mean, what was HTML 5 supposed to change? The fact that video (and audio) is broken on the web, leaving to flash as the closed de-facto standard. The whole situation that HTML5 was supposed to fix is, itself, a result of codec licensing/patent issues.<p>I'd venture that without those issues, the &#60;object&#62; and &#60;embed&#62; tags would have had a bigger impact.