Why shouldn't I use Flash?

Question

I\'ve heard many times that I should avoid flash for my website. Yet no one has told me a good reason for this. I\'ve searched for reasons and I see many that are not true (such

Answer 1

Nobody mentioned this one yet:

• because of Adobe's abysmal security track record (major reason invoked by Apple btw)

In my view it's an insecure underperforming clumsy proprietary product that anyway won't work on the millions of iPhone/iPad out there.

Heck, I didn't even bother to install Flash on my Linux workstation (and, no, I don't watch youtube videos on my workstation ;)

Anyway, HTML5 is here and it's here to stay and it makes Flash even less compelling.