Reality is also that Flash won't be supported in the browsers of mobile devices. The reason that we complain about performance, and the proprietary format, is

Reality is also that Flash won't be supported in the browsers of mobile devices. The reason that we complain about performance, and the proprietary format, is just because that are the main problems with it. Building without flash is not for everyone, but if you want to support Mobile Safari, or for all the other people without access to flash, you need a javascript solution to the problem. Have faith, even IE will be able to support rich multimedia applications in the future, or it will become irrelevant. That future is starting to become available now in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.