The thing that I really loved about Flash and miss still today is that it contained the dynamism: the web page around the embedded Flash object was just plain old HTML. This meant that I controlled whether or not the Flash played.
By contrast, Javascript runs without any action from the user. Consequently, web designers have grown to rely on it always being there, and now many sites rely on it to do things that can be done in pure HTML.
And oh by the way, they also violate my privacy something fierce.
By contrast, Javascript runs without any action from the user. Consequently, web designers have grown to rely on it always being there, and now many sites rely on it to do things that can be done in pure HTML.
And oh by the way, they also violate my privacy something fierce.