Now that we\'re starting to get some benefits from maturing HTML, CSS, and Javascript implementations, via libraries like Prototype, Scriptaculous, Jquery, mootools, and so on, along come the vendors hawking their own proprietary re-invention of the same thing.  Wheter its Adobe\'s Flash/Apollo/Flex, Microsofts\'s recently demo\'d Silverlight, or Sun\'s rumoured own re-imagining of it all.  But who am I to listen to, go read Mark Pilgrim\'s take on it, [Silly Season](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/05/02/silly-season). > Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. > Nowadays I'm reduced to nothing more than Grey's-Anatomy-esque > catchphrases. Seriously? *Seriously?* Do I really have to explain why > this is a bad idea? Again? In the same vein, [Sandy](http://sfsmith.com/blog/) has some thoughts on why Flash isn\'t all its cracked up to be, it would make a good item to post on his blog.