Nice site (could come in useful), however — why flash/flex?! It just seems so much slower than it could have been (especially since it's such a simple site, HTM

Nice site (could come in useful), however — why flash/flex?! It just seems so much slower than it could have been (especially since it's such a simple site, HTML + light javascript would have sufficed perfectly…and saved CPU cycles!), and to be honest, the thing which flash excels at, animations, are a bit annoying…