Useless to say meanwhile : Flash is the only webstandard which made rich media and animations spread on the net. It's the most important technique, even more than HTML. The advances: very small files (vectorgraphics) , good erformance on all platforms. The plugin is also small (170k), the installation easy - on newer browsers already integrated. In 1998 we made the first animations and banners - when many people were skeptic and rather believed in shockwave or quicktime.