There's still no replacement for the specific thing Flash did. I get that Flash itself sucked (the power use...) but it's really damn sad we simply lost what it could do. I'd have thought we'd have a replacement by now, but no.

Incidentally, last I checked, no replacement for the marquee tag, either. That tag had a lot of features, in fact, and when I looked a couple years back there seemed to be zero projects that could actually replace it completely. A bunch of things that used to be very easy to accomplish, using that tag, now aren't. (now, maybe none of those things should ever be done, I suppose, so perhaps it doesn't matter)

Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience.

Mobile first was the issue. Adobe bought it and blundered about, they could still resurrect the thing but have no vision.

> Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience.

Linux and Windows. Yes, it ate power like it was free.

I'd love stats on that. I never had a machine slowdown because of it.

What people forget is that web browsing in general sucked on the earliest mobile devices. Remember the mosaic tiling Safari would show if you tried to scroll the page faster than the browser could render it?

Taking that into consideration, Flash worked pretty damn well on Android. It wasn't doomed because of its mobile inefficiency. It was doomed because both Apple and Android knew that they could never convince developers to build for their 30% tax walled gardens if Flash remained a fee-free alternative on the open web.

Yup, building an interactive website in Flash and then being told to do it with "HTML5/CSS3" is like going from a laser rifle to a musket and gunpowder.