Re: Destroy the culture too
How about pointing to an open standard that is around now that can compete with the functionality you can get in flash?
I remember some really incredible sites (one that comes to mind is Jim Carrey's old one), and it would cripple all but the very high powered computers to do anything even remotely like that using modern open standards.
I've got nothing against retiring technologies, but doing it before there is something else that can do the same job seems a shame.
One example I can think of is a client wanted an animated logo on their splash page. The swf is 16kb, the jquery version is 205kb. Is that really progress?
Just because many people use a technology in a bad way, doesn't mean you should get rid of it. Should we just ban all music because of the likes of bieber et al?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
