If you could Alex if you have time... See what it would take to start testing with silverlight for php. Not sure on the speeds or server load compaired to flash... and i know half if not all of dolphin would need to be recoded.

When I was on the .aspx side of things it seemed pretty powerful then and they have come a long way in the media streaming section thats for sure.

There media player has the option to throttle the speed of content being streamed based on the users bandwidth connection see more to the sever and the other thing i like about silverlight is its very easy for the average person to skin the media player anyway they see fit.

It streams audio. video and photos very well and i think you could replace all but the chat function with it.

Not sure if this to off topic so in short i agree 100% that flash has to go in as many places as you can and there needs to be some sort of replacement for it.

Now with that said I am not sure if its going to hurt or help with the look and feel of dolphin but I know it will most likely speed things along without it and there will not be so many people complaining about things not be saved when they make a change on a form in the admin panel or editing a profile....