The important bits of Flash were not so much the capabilities of the player but the tooling to be creative. Flash found so many niches from animation, games, ap

The important bits of Flash were not so much the capabilities of the player but the tooling to be creative. Flash found so many niches from animation, games, applications, being embedded for UI rendering and on because it provided an agnostic tool to make all these things in, really easily. In terms of capabilities though there was much less worry about compatibility.