Flash has been with us for many years adding some sweet animation and effects to the Internet. Some of the coolest websites are created using nothing but Flash (but also some of the worst sites). Back in the day, some of my favorite websites were little more than flash animations all over. With all the neat things that Flash can do, why doesn't the iPhone or iPad support it? With CSS3 and HTML5 on the way in, is Flash on it's death bed? Are CSS3 and Jquery the Ivan Drago to the Apollo Creed that's Flash?

CSS3 has some pretty cool animation tricks that for the time being only work on webkit browsers (Chrome and Safari) and mostly likely soon to be on Firefox. Guess which browser won't be supporting it. A neat example of the animation is the walking AT-AT (remember to use chrome or safari) that is pure HTML and CSS3. It's not the smoothest ride, but I'm sure it'll get better as time progresses. CSS3 is still being worked on and things are improving all the time. At the office, we've used jquery to have image transitions that really only hardcore javascripting or flash was capable of doing.

With this and the awesome that is jquery, how can Flash survive? Well like all technology, it'll have to keep up. As it stands, Flash still has its hands on the game market. I love Flash games and a friend of mine spends a good amount of time making some. For complex animations, Flash is still one of the best tools just because it's easier to use (more or less). Heck, Flash can even make some sweet desktop programs using Adobe Air. Maybe that's the future of Flash; It can give us desktop apps that animate, sparkle and make loud noises (which we all like).

What does everyone think? Have we seen the end of Flash or is the best yet to come?