I completely agree with you, but in the interest of lively discussion I'll play devils advocate for a second here and point out Gordon [1] which is an open-source flash implementation written in Javascript and Gnash which is an open-source flash movie player [2].<p>[1] <a href="http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/</a>