I think the one thing we can agree on is that Flash svcks for websites, the only thing that svcks more is trying to design a fancy website that works in all major browsers.
I long for HTML5 to become widely used. 'Course, people will then use it to make similarly annoying cruddy websites, but at least it won't be Flash

. And Microsoft probably won't conform to the standards, because its special and refuses to have its choices dictated by 'the man'...