So long and thanks for all the $flash
Flash has always been a mediocre tool at best. It’s not friendly for content, it’s not efficient enough to do video or games well, and its programming model is odd and lumpy. But, it was the best we had when Internet Explorer was king. That was then.
Today we have better, simpler, more accessible, and more meaningful ways of spicing up content, including accelerated video, powerful canvas tools, speedy scripting, and even sound. That’s good for us, bad for Flash, and really bad for Adobe.
Adobe could do something smart or nice. But they probably wont, and instead will go out whining about things not being fair. Truthfully, they need to admit that Flash was always horrible, which would lead them to build something that solves what Flash tried to in a nice, friendly way. If not them, someone else will.
We’re not quite there yet, but the browser wars have turned toward solving interactive things with JavaScript, Canvas, and plain-old, clean HTML/CSS.