I will argue Flash is far from dead.<p>Just this week I used Flash.<p>A Client wanted to flip through photos, have words fade in over a period of time, and at the end, the logo was to fly in, glow, and then blend into the background.<p>This was a perfect place to use Flash.<p>Would I have done this in HTML and Javascript?  No.  Would I have created it in some other software and exported it as a video?  No.  It came to a few Kb in size when all finished and looked fantastic.<p>I look at it this way:<p>Aftereffects is to Video as Flash is to a Web Page.<p>Your goal is to create something awesome, but if you suck at the program, you'll end up with crap.<p>If you think that throwing out Flash will take the annoying ads and bad user interfaces of the world with it you are dreaming.<p>Flash is a nice system for creating some great animations and UI's and I don't see any reason for it to die.