Ease of development and speed of loading really makes a difference. I remember just sitting around looking at these Java Applets loading whole applications. Wh

Ease of development and speed of loading really makes a difference. I remember just sitting around looking at these Java Applets loading whole applications. While Flash games were snappy. The moment you hit some webpage and it shows you a Java Applet loading bar you knew the website was useless basically. I think this had quite a bit to with Java and the way it implemented UIs. Also just serving a whole bunch of unnecessary stuff. To be fair this eventually became an issue with JS as well, but not the the same degree compared to the network speed.