^ Nailed it. I just made this realization yesterday. I suddenly dawned on me that the vitriol spewed by html devs likely stems from the fact that they've lost a contract or two due to a lack of ability to write as3.

On a related note, the most confusing argument is that flash crashes a lot and somehow crashes more often these days. I don't spend much time researching flash experiences across the web but I do see a lot and I just don't experience this crashiness. I follow some great devs on twitter who post links to their edge case experiments and they're pretty damn stable.

My office is researching a holy grail approach to javascript atm. From a developer stand point its kind of an enjoyable search for a solution. It's what we do. But from a effort vs. payoff perspective, this is f*cking insane! I will say that javascript is a bit like free style kung-fu. The only structure comes from technique. This is appealing until you realize its like having mad rubix cube or pen twirling skills. No body f*cking cares.