what's rather funny about this, is after listening to so many people go on about how they hated flash, and couldn't wait to get rid of the animation thing in their browsers, my response was always that if in fact flash were to actually go down, something else would replace it. There are already other alternatives and have been before the excitement about html5.
And we'll be back where we are now, doing the same things we do with flash, only, in another medium. Though I can hardly wait to have to deal with cross browser unsupported tags blah blah that we don't have at all really, in flash.
What do we hate exactly again???