This forgets a lot of the pain of flash. It was almost a windows only thing. It required constant updates independantly of the browser, sometimes not working pr

This forgets a lot of the pain of flash. It was almost a windows only thing. It required constant updates independantly of the browser, sometimes not working properly. It was also a common cause of browser crashes. There was low control over what it was doing (remember those horrible ads with blasting sound?) Having a plugin to block flash was almost mandatory. It was also taking over user input in a way that always seems to break website that were a mix of html and flash. Flash was a horrible user experience. The flash editor was indeed a user friendly and nice tool to get into vector animations though, for anything else HTML/js already does a much better job than flash in my opinion. One thing i'll never get is why adobe didn't open source flash player instead of killing it. The money was in the editor, not the player. Open sourcing it might have changed its fate.