Originally Posted by potter

Sorry, but the Adobe thing is a great thing. There is absolutely no reason for web development and computer technologies to be DEPENDENT on a third party application. It's retarded.

Let alone the fact that javascript and html have almost all the capabilities that are available with flash. However for whatever reason development turned to flash instead and took development down a bassackwards road to using flash instead of growing the javascript libraries.

Think about it. It's 2010 and we've finally gotten into the jQuery libraries and development has made a drastic move over to javascript instead of using flash. Javascript is a not a dependent third party plugin, it's all native. It's also better optimized for the web, not only in size but in rendering capabilities, and search engine optimization. What sucks, is we're this far into web development technology however we're still epically behind on javascript development because so much of the development world had it's head up Adobe's ass and never bothered to explore javascript more.

Flash is great for advertising and marketing. But that's where it place should stay.