Still waiting for Flash

It's been out there for years. It's called SVG + XHTML + JavaScript + CSS.

However, few know how this could be put together in a coherent fashion, and there's no dev
tool to create an SVG animation that even remotely mirrors the ease-of-use Adobe Flash CS3
gives. And it has a bunch of other problems as well.

The pieces are there. Might need a bit work on the rough edges, but until someone genuinely
*tries* to create something with it, until support for SVG is available in *all* major
browsers (either as a plugin or natively in the browsers) and until there's a killer feature
for it, adoption won't happen.