Choices for whom? Personally I'd rather be able to choose not to download yet one more plugin I don't really need in order to view a new website. And if those plugins are proprietary, I'll have to shell out big bucks to make my own content for them!

Whatever happened to the w3 implementing all this stuff as web standards? I seem to recall they were endorsing SVG among some other things for doing slideshows and simple animation.

I wish I could say "Web Standards FTW!", but sadly that does not seem to be the case.