š¹Early to RISA š§Anon misses flash
bruhbeansTo 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.
Iirc, wasnāt flash deprecated because of unpatchable bugs that created a gaping hole in your browser security?
schnurritomaybe 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
Thereās plenty of criticisms to be made against Apple, iOS, etc, but āthe only good thingā is a super generic and reductive statement. Proper sandboxing, app review by humans for people just hitting āinstallā the A chips leading to the M chips which are forcing competition, are all good things, and thereās more. Apple is overpriced, molds the market, fights against being a monopoly, takes advantage of international supply chains and people, thatās 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
ByteJunkWell, it used to be a brilliant innovation by Macromedia.
Then like all things bought by Adobeā¦ it became complete shit.
Dem BosainPoint: early_to_risa.
All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.
And the shitty slow overly complicated āweb appā pages that couldāve 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. Weāre talking the days of Internet connections measured in individual megabit per second being āfastā and dialup not being uncommon
Yāall had megabit connections?
I had dial up. Load a page and walk away and do something else for a bit. 56 kbit/s was theoretical max. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access
