What is so evil about a Flash based website?

Question

I have the feeling that Flash-based ( or Silverlight-based) websites are generally frowned upon, except when you are creating games or multimedia-content rich applications.

Answer 1

My biggest gripe with Flash is that it takes you "out of the browser" into its own totally separate application. This breaks "browser standards" - i.e. the functions I can do in my browser:

• Right click
• Middle click (for opening links in other tabs)
• Selecting text
• Copy & paste
• Printing
• Keyboard shortcuts (since Flash steals keyboard focus)
• Back/Forward buttons and the whole "page" concept
• Javascript interaction with other elements on the page (I don't think this is possible).
• "Inspect element" in Firebug or Chrome, if I wanted to see the source of a particular part of the Flash file, or find the image being used.