I have long wanted to see the gap between browser javascript and flash narrow in, and it seems to slowly start happening about now. Brad GNUberg reports on a javascript to flash integration demo where a flash component sitting behind the page HTML communicates with the page javascript to do seamless animation (which browser javascript won't have until the coming of ways of syncronizing drawing with monitor refresh) in the background. (Don't hold your breath.) It's a rather nice tutorial on how to go about doing it, too.