Why not, after all what is flash basically ? animated vectorial pictures... (and a lot of more features). As you say, we have SVG ... Is it possible to animate svg ? just my 2 cents thinking.

Can somebody explain me why on my Fedora 11 x64, the same libflashplayer.so works fine on Opera 10 and not on Firefox 3.5.6 ? And Gnash ... well it's a good initiative, but too young to be really usable (well at least with my computer)