> that was gradually replacing open web standards. Flash was offering things that the normal web couldn't do (like video). It took a long time for the web to c

> that was gradually replacing open web standards. Flash was offering things that the normal web couldn't do (like video). It took a long time for the web to catch up nominally, and it's still lacking Macromedia would still be selling Flash if there was an open standard that replaced swf and was equally performant After all the web is now full of SPAs which are a very bloated version of flash pages with much less functionality