Yep, but like rolling an XML web service or posting html forms, that would (be far too boring) || (come with its own set of trade offs).

If we could get an open-source flash player that was not so insecure and/or make an open source equivalent to Adobe air that spits out web standard code, we would not lose the flexibility that adobe flash gave us.

we really don't have an answer to losing Adobe flash, similarly to when we lost the spaghetti code enabling yet so pragmatically useful visual basic 6.