![mugtug sketchpad mugtug sketchpad](http://mugtug.com/darkroom/media/html5-badge-h-css3-graphics-performance-semantics-storage.png)
Right now Flash has no practical competition. With HTML5 there is now a chance to correct a glaring omission from HTML and issue rich content in a standards compliant manner. Nothing about flash makes the internet better, its just that YouTube adopted it and the video aspect made it pretty popular. In addition to being non-standards compliant, it is completely proprietary from authoring to delivery via a plug-in. It is that flash is a non-standards compliant way to deliver rich content. Maybe these companies are clueless but right now they have a lot of work and to me work = good. I know very successful award winning web design companies that have too much work flying at them for rich dynamic content and are hiring new Flash designers all the time to keep up with the demand. Just because some web designers may have clients that don't want complex graphics doesn't mean another group of web designers is the same. Again this is a debate on concept and theory and different rules apply to different designers in different markets. Many view this as the need for animation and complex interactive content. The web is no longer about sharing information but getting people excited about that information as well. If dynamic visual rich web content is such an abomination then why is HTML 5 adding all of this stuff? If true web design is HTML, CSS and jpeg then shouldn't HTML 5 stick to that rule? The fact is that the web is moving into a more animated aspect. They are tools for the lazy or incompetent. No competent web designer needs flash or any plug in to develop their site. Google is big on the user experience, so it won't be long before people who rely on flash and not the fundamental tools of html, css and the rest are going to get punished even more and become even less relevant. I hope they take extra points off for sites that use flash. Google actual weighs the speed a site loads at for both search engine ad rankings and organic search rankings. They should be there to provide information and if possible present advertising or whatever other means they use to make an income. Websites should not be made to "be cool" or having spinning, worthless and bloated graphics. Fortunately it would likely open up jobs for capable people. Web developers who don't understand how and why people use their websites are horrible and should all be fired tomorrow. I had to tell them it was not really feasible given they have a stupid menu made with a stupid plug in. I had someone the other day ask me to print of a menu for fricking Jack in the Box. Why do 99.99% of all restaurant sites suck hard.