10 Years of Flash

CNET has an interesting article concerning the 10th anniversary of Adobe’s (that still sounds weird) Flash plugin for the web. There are some interesting tidbits in there, such as the purchase of the company that created flash and the threat that AJAX poses, but this is what got me the most:

“Today the shift is from animations to applications,” said Kevin Lynch, chief software architect and senior vice president of Adobe’s platform business unit. “The community around Flash has been pushing us–and technically we’ve been working–to enable” Web applications.

I hope companies understand that while it’s not a bad thing to have flash in a webapp, whenever possible to should be relegated to the presentational layer, rather than the actual user interface. If Adobe really wants flash to be the way users interact with web 2.0, they might as well build a flash browser, from the ground up.

Wow. That’s actually sort of a scary prospect.