i am not touching any tech that is prone to execute code differently.
- you know the difference when the client calls and yelling it doesn't work on his bitch's PC because the bitch is at M$ and loves IE.
- you know the difference when you write 2000 lines of JS just to realize that some browsers don't know what an Array is.
- you know the difference when you have to write 100 lines of code to blur an image not to mention the learning phase and the issue with performance and concurrency
and this is why we need Java, Flash and others like it.
the web plugin is a necessity because some browser developers are more stupid then others