Tim Bray muses on what the merger means and he thinks it's bad news for Flash: "Macromedia has never made any serious money with Flash [even though] they've accomplished one of the great, heroic, marketing coups of all time, getting the plug-in onto substantially every desktop on the planet". So will Adobe ditch it, as Bray suggests? Or will they take their own crack at monetizing one hell of a reach?

He also remarks, "most of the good things you can do with Flash, you can do about as well with DHTML (oops that's called AJAX now) and your 'back' button still works". Actually, AJAX is better defined as "DHTML that interacts with the server". Old-school DHTML was strictly about doing cool things on the client side. And he's obviously taking a programmer's perspective on what is good about Flash, excluding audio (impossible in JavaScript) and the ease of animation and cross-browser development. Just try tweening an image in JS; talk about a waste of time.

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