ActionScript 3.0 is what JavaScript should be. Actual classes, typed variables, and a platform that works the same in every browser. Contrarian view but I see

ActionScript 3.0 is what JavaScript should be. Actual classes, typed variables, and a platform that works the same in every browser. Contrarian view but I see flash improving its lead on html. Adobe doesn’t have to deal with a bureaucratic standards body and can act decisively when making platform changes. Ex: I’d like to see MS, Mozilla, IE, Chrome, Apple, Opera all agree to implement similar features in Flash 11 (and work the same in each browser). Then I’d like to see them agree on new feature sets when Flash 12, 13, 14 come out etc. I just don’t see how five browser vendors can equal the agility of one flash vendor. Too much red tape in the html congress… Yes, Flash is proprietary and it doesn’t work well for mobile. All I can say is that I’ve been burned one too many times by IE not showing CSS table borders on empty cells (last time I checked IE8 still requires that damned ampersand in each cell!). I’m fed up with browser incompatibility. All of the JavaScript frameworks (and now with Google making Dart) confirm that JavaScript is inherently outdated and broken. I gave up on html for Flex and am not looking back. Just my humble opinion…