[rantanplan]

Out of 100 sites in flash, maybe 2 were the gems you describe. The remaining 98 were utter crap that should die in a fire.

The people who designed these gems would probably be able to design good sites no matter what tools they had at their disposal.

[rch]

Except in that the people paying the designers would demand sites like the 98 horrible ones.

[happertiger]

And you consider that different from the current generation of sites how?

All kidding aside I think the overall level of USABILITY of websites is much higher than it ever has been today. But in large part that’s because they are all following the same foundations.