Comment on Anon misses flash
bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
To be fair, flash was garbage proprietary tech fully under control of fucking Adobe. All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.
All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.
And the shitty slow overly complicated ‘web app’ pages that could’ve presented the same content in a hundred lines of HTML. That was done in Flash before it was done in JavaScript.
To be fair, flash filled a gaping hole in html and css standards for a hot minute. Heck for the longest time flash was the best way to serve a video player because of those limitations. It also was instrumental in enabling animated videos on the Internet in a time when video on the web was too bandwidth intensive to be viable. We’re talking the days of Internet connections measured in individual megabit per second being “fast” and dialup not being uncommon
Y’all had megabit connections?
Well, it used to be a brilliant innovation by Macromedia.
Then like all things bought by Adobe… it became complete shit.
Point: early_to_risa.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Iirc, wasn’t flash deprecated because of unpatchable bugs that presented a gaping holein your browser security?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
maybe that too, but mainly it was the move from desktops to smartphones and tablets, which Flash was (at minimum) not very suited for if it was supported at all
This may be the only good thing caused by the existence of iOS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
kautau@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
There’s plenty of criticisms to be made against Apple, iOS, etc, but “the only good thing” is a super generic and reductive statement. Proper sandboxing, app review by humans for people just hitting “install” the A chips leading to the M chips which are forcing competition, are all good things, and there’s more. Apple is overpriced, molds the market, fights against being a monopoly, takes advantage of international supply chains and people, that’s where they deserve the most criticism rather than their engineering specifically which has caused a bunch of really good tech things, not perfect, and not binary
kautau@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ironically I believe flash mostly died for that as a founding moment on why apple would not support it on iPhones. Adobe only finally killed it after safari decided it wouldn’t support it
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Risky click of the day…