>>Is Flash the Future?

Define “future�. The questions states:

>>Flash seems to be the best at integration of audio, video, and visual effects.

That is very true.

>> Now with Adobe and it's resources in charge will there be no stopping Flash at becoming the leading web tool.

The leading web tool for integration of audio, video and visual effects that is. I share that prediction. Flash won the fight with Java for the “web animation� plugin and has been the leading tool for a while.

But, if your question is if it will replace HTML (or xHTML in the following years), then no, that is not going to happen nor is Flash trying to achieve that.

Audas,

I have to say I pretty much disagreed with everything you said, starting with you calling Ajax “for laughs�.

The web is what people want it to be, and people want information. Fancy graphics are a nice bonus but not the main thing. Flash is a good tool but it offers in no way a better browsing environment than regular HTML and other W3C standards. I don’t think anybody would want their documents to be animated. These days more and more people are disabling Flash in their browsers to avoid advertisements and unnecessary smoke and mirrors.

Bottom line, Flash on the web is here to stay because it fills the void for animation/multimedia as a plugin; but it is only that, a plugin. Are there other uses for Flash? Certainly, but not on the web.