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So can you put all the files necessary for a rich multimedia Flash file into one file without Flash? How about handling file uploads or storing data locally? Or dare I ask about webcam / microphone support, for video chat? Or interacting with the operating system in any way at all? Flash has better, more developed, much more consistent media playback functionality than HTML5. Flash is mature and robust, whereas SVG is just now starting to catch on thanks to that little pissing match between Apple and Adobe. It's been around for what, ten years? and no one gave a shit until now. Meanwhile, Flash runs everywhere except inside of Steve Jobs's Reality Distortion Field and it has for years. My phone plays Flash just fine -- I browse /f/ with it sometimes.
Flash naysayers will push for whatever comes along that superficially seems like a substitute without giving much thought to the wide variety of use cases for which Flash is often the better or even only solution. Perhaps rather than reinventing everything it would have been more productive to draw on Flash's maturity and convince Adobe to make it into a proper open standard. Of course, it'd take a fairly large company to do the convincing -- and Apple could have been in that position, but they decided to be jackasses about the whole thing.