ActiveX and Flash were certainly innovations. One of them didn't pan out[1] and the other did and lasted for quite some time. You realize that if not for Flash

ActiveX and Flash were certainly innovations. One of them didn't pan out[1] and the other did and lasted for quite some time. You realize that if not for Flash, sites like Youtube wouldn't have been possible at the time that it was released? [1] ActieX didn't pan out for the web as a whole - it fared well behind the walls of enterprises.