bhutocracy

well, flash is great for many reasons...because it uses objects to animate rather than sequences of changing pixels. Because of interactivity, and yes because it uses vectors.
Bitmap takes the shorter straw on website design??? since when? logos yes because they are supposed to be simple. Not websites however. The heyday of full vector sites was sometime around '99 when flash 2 and 3 were around. every flash studio had a crazy cool full vector flash site that was lovely to watch but useless to use.
Bitmaps will always be a core feature of the web. As more and more bandwidth becomes available we will go further towards video than vector.
Not trashing vector, I like it for many reasons but pretending it's anything other than another tool in your belt is myopic. "bitmaps are better for photos yes" Do you ever think there will be a time when "website design" is less than 90% text and photographic? No. Toyota will always want pictures of their cars. Nike will always want pictures of their shoes. People will always want porn, people will always want to show pics of their kids or cars or whatever.
Vectors aren't great for texture. Web site elements will always beconstructed with photographic elements.

Vectors are also more CPU intensive when they get complicated, the math that makes them small in size when they're simple start to make them heavy and slow when they become complicated.

Anyways not wanting to put a dent in your thread, but a ra ra SVG article at this point in time is humourous. It's been around 4 years since it was released and we are yet to even see it used on anything other than theoretical or exhibition sites. Flash just had the authoring base tied up. Not saying SVG isn't a good technology.. just like others such as web 3d, the real world practicalities ensure they don't live up to their promise for whatever reasons.