Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash

AppleInsider has a 3 part series (with lively comments) on the jockeying for control over the mobile, Web, and desktop platforms; see a previous post on platform plays for background.

Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash [Part 1 of 3]
Flash Wars: The Many Enemies and Obstacles of Flash [Part 2 of 3]
Flash Wars: Adobe Fights for AIR with the Open Screen Project [Part 3 of 3]

The articles ignore Silverlight/Live Mesh, Google, and JavaFX for the most part; here's something new in JavaFX from the conference in San Francisco via RIA pundit Ryan Stewart:

Update: Slashdot reports on "a Javascript port of the Processing Visualization Language and a first step towards Javascript being a rival to Flash for online graphics content." ...and Create Digital Motion provides additional background and realism.