> The author argues that a tool like Flash the authoring software should exist, but makes no argument about Flash the runtime. Yes, this is what I meant. Sorry

> The author argues that a tool like Flash the authoring software should exist, but makes no argument about Flash the runtime. Yes, this is what I meant. Sorry, I didn't clarify this in the replied comment. > it isn't the nature of HTML which is the problem It is in some degrees. The same html/js code might run some differently in different browsers, from either behaviors or performance aspects. On the other hand, Flash runtime only presents some small behavior differences on different OSes or with different CPU architectures. And for different OSes/browser combos with the same-power CPUs+GPUs, there is almost no performance differences.