I loved Flash for those things. However, a majority of my interactions were websites for things like restaurants where I couldn't copy/paste basic things like

I loved Flash for those things. However, a majority of my interactions were websites for things like restaurants where I couldn't copy/paste basic things like the address, didn't have progressive loading, search, bookmarks, scrolling and the performance was abysmal. Flash could technically do all of those things, but never happened in practice. html5 was supposed to bring all the cool things Flash had without most of the annoying things I mentioned above. I saw some cool tech demos years ago, but for whatever reason (lack of good artist tools?) I haven't really seen much in years.