> One part of why Microsoft's ideas didn't really catched on was that we developers just didn't get it. Most of us were amateurs and had no computer degree. Ins

> One part of why Microsoft's ideas didn't really catched on was that we developers just didn't get it. Most of us were amateurs and had no computer degree. Instead we were so busy learning about semantic markup and CSS that we totally missed the rest Should we address the elephant in the room? For us without a CS degree, Flash was easily the first choice, IE have lagging problems whenver there's more than three layers of <DIV>s around. Yes it has lots of cool capabilities but it's rendered largely impractical. Even Adobe Flex was about take over the "business app" world. On the Microsoft side, .NET happened and Silverlight happened. But ultimately, the iPhone happened. 1-charge per day battery phones happened. BTW the article didn't mention <IMG DYNSRC> and background MIDI music support.