Approximately half of Flash's design decisions and APIs were extremely well-designed and well-engineered. There are still many things that Flash does better tha

Approximately half of Flash's design decisions and APIs were extremely well-designed and well-engineered. There are still many things that Flash does better than pure HTML and their view framework API was actually quite lovely. That said...the other 50% was frequently so bad that it more than cancelled out the benefit on the other side. Which is why no one uses Flash anymore [1]. [1] Everyone still uses Flash.