Forget about the debate over whether “Avatar” or “The Hurt Locker” will win movie awards this year. The real argument among those who create and share their own Web videos — DIY James Camerons, as it were — centers on whether or not they should dump Adobe Flash and other plug-in players for HTML 5, the latest version of the Web’s markup language. The picture cleared up a little for HTML 5 supporters late last week as they learned that top video sharing sites Vimeo and YouTube were going to offer their users the option of using the new standard.

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