I'm all for innovation (except "MS-Innovation"), and Flash 5 has a lot of it. One thing I found interesting/questionable/evil is this feature which allows an arbitrarily small ad banner or bug expand into an arbitrarily large specification sheet or entire catalog when the page it's on is printed.

I'd like to take this chance to officially be the first to coin the term "bannerspam". They actually call this feature "WYPINWYS" (What You Print Is Not What You See). They say it like it's a good thing.

On the other hand, their freedom to innovate also includes revolutionary "familiar tabbed docking panels." Familiar, you say? Familiar enough for Adobe to sue for patent infringement, not because they invented tabbed menus, but because they have a patent on being able to 'detach and recombine' tabbed menus.

It's funny that you can get a patent for a ui process, but you can't own a domain name.