Yeah I'm just dying for karma.<p>I'm generalizing a lot here, I know there are people who work on Flash stuff and aren't huge dicks about it. When I read most comments in support of Flash, they're usually something like, "Flash gives me the tools to deliver the experience we want to deliver, nothing else that exists right now allows us to do this, etc." Which is probably true. And I don't want your experience. When something is Flash, I can't do shit about it. It runs in an opaque box in my browser, controlled by some other company that makes shitty products. It devours cpu, trashes browsers that don't isolate the plugin into its own process, and can do shady things with cookies.<p>Flash has two uses now: ads and video playback.<p>A "rich media experience" site is almost always just a big ad for something. And you use Flash in the ad because there's not much content there. If there was content, you could just put it up as HTML. Instead you need to dress it up in glitz and parade it around with sound effects and junk.<p>"It's what consumers want! This is the real world. This is what sells products. People love dazzling moving sparkly things!"<p>Yeah? <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/design/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/ipad/design/</a><p>It's an HTML page. With images. And text. It scrolls vertically. It's a pure distillation of the web.