Not only that, Flash was a designers tool. Creative people easily understood the video-like interface and could make amazing stuff quickly without first learnin

Not only that, Flash was a designers tool. Creative people easily understood the video-like interface and could make amazing stuff quickly without first learning up to 8 different code-based languages. Flash was great after Macromedia. It took a beating by Adobe when they started focusing on Flex instead. Flash was essentially dead when Adobe introduced the Flash Builder / Flash Designer mess.