At this point we need FLASH support and the ability to play WMV video from websites.
I'd rather not have the ability to slow down a mobile device with 15 flash adverts thank you.
Never mind the proprietary piece of crap that is WMV.
As for people hating on Flash.... why?
If someone builds a site solely in Flash and you don't even notice, then that person did their job the right way. If you get frustrated by navigating a site or it has long pauses for load time, then the Flash work was crap.
I wish that web page development was a hybrid of Flash and HTML, but in an intensive graphical way. Creating a web page should in no way involve writing code that can muck up if you forget one little closure mark. It should be like laying out a page in Illustrator with Photoshop and Flash capabilities.
You've got it totally wrong.
The web is about information dissemination. Plain text search. Flash sites aren't even searchable with Google, because they're so messed up with their own eliteness. Flash is a good tool for certain uses, but as a technology to do entire websites, oh dear lord, NO.
HTML, CSS, etc, are simple. If you can't do it, go and train in another industry. You'll never understand back-end systems, databases, security, etc. Most websites don't even need to worry about HTML, they're template based at some level, your article is stored in the database, possibly not even as HTML but as Wiki, or another style of markup. And that's what the web is about, it isn't about flashiness, it's about content.
However you might get part of your wish if SVG gets popular as a standards-based medium, and it is integrated well with websites.