JD at Adobe points out how the web video revolution that was made possible by the Flash player is could repeat itself with RIAs.

I couldn’t agree more. I’m just amazed to see what people are able to do with Ajax and then I feel sorry for them because I know what a fraking headache it is to do that sort of work in a cross browser environment. I think to myself, “they couldn’t pay me enough to go through that.”

Not that Flash is simple or easy, far from it. But the cross browser issues are almost non existant. Plus you don’t have to worry about a new browser coming out that you’ll have to change your code for.

The good news for the Ajax crowd is that Actionscript is based on the same root language ECMA. So if they want to join the crowd it won’t be too painful.