I was really hoping that Silverlight would gain more traction than it did... for that matter, it&#x27;s far closer to what I was hoping for when Adobe bought Macromedia.  I had been hoping to see a <i>new</i> flash container format that was similar to what Silverlight became using SVG and MP3 with JS as it&#x27;s main interfaces in an open structure (for the format and player), Adobe could have stayed king of tooling...  Flash and Flex are still way better in terms of tooling for some relatively complicated presentations, simulations and the like for a browser than what you now need to hand code with current standards.<p>It really takes something like WebAssembly which multiple browser vendors back to get traction... Adobe was in the position to give us this almost a decade ago.