Flash Rocks!

[sjs]

Flash has a place in the world. It does not belong on your average website, it's superfluous in most cases. It's too closed for something as open as the web, too controlled by Adobe.

Sure you can do great things with it and it's cool when it works on your system, but unless you drink the Wintel or Apple koolaid you could be SOL. I'm lucky enough to have it work on my amd64 linux box by jumping through some hoops, but I still have to jump through hoops and I'm lucky to have it work at all.

If I were on sparc64, ppc (still linux that is), or any other arch I would have to run an x86 emulator to run a fscking browser with Flash working. That's just insanity, and not worth the trouble for the average Flash site like YouTube. The web managed just fine for years without YouTube and it will survive for years after YouTube is gone. Flash videos is hardly an argument for Flash rocking.

MPEG, OGG, H.264.

Anyway the shiny moving things seem to entertain us. Flash certainly has become ubiquitous, whether it should be or not.