Originally Posted by richard

Q: Is Flash the future of the net?

A: I say, 'no'.

I've recently been doing a lot of work utlising W3C standards, and have been reading extensively on the virtures of why they are a good idea in the first place.

When you're designing websites with usability in mind, it is very difficult to include flash elements without compromising your aims.

The core of the web will remain with the W3C. Flash may even become extinct in the future, and replaced by SVG (W3C standard, Scaleable Vector Graphics).

One theory is that because SVG is such a bad-ass idea (XML based!) Macromedia will be forced into adopting it; they'll then use their authoring tools (ie Freehand, FlashMX etc) to produce SVG files.