> every website that used Flash for video content Ugh flash based video was a scourge on the web. It was bad on desktop where you're tethered to a power cord

> every website that used Flash for video content Ugh flash based video was a scourge on the web. It was bad on desktop where you're tethered to a power cord and the worst problem with excessive CPU usage was that your fans would spin up. That would never fly on mobile where you're way more constrained by battery life. Besides that flash video widgets always caused problems on desktop with focus stealing and whatnot. The benefits of standardizing video under the guise of HTML5 cannot be overstated. I can grok the benefits of using flash for "rich" content (ignoring that most of the rich content were popup ads), but video? No. Video was hands down one of the worst uses of flash.