Adobe Flash Legacy
Discussions revolve around Adobe Flash's historical role in web development, its strengths in interactive content and tools, drawbacks like security and performance issues, and its replacement by HTML5 and JavaScript.
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Making Flash obsolete is pretty important
Flash existed long before HTML5, there was no platform for the tools. They revolutionized the web and HTML5 is catching up
Why did you hate flash as a user?
Flash is getting less and less useful for web-browser development. Javascript + HTML5 is so much better.
I did a lot of Flash/Flex work - it was the bees knees of front-end dev in the days before JQuery, Firebug, Chrome etc. and was the most consistent across platforms, as the same plugin was used on each, as opposed to trying to make your web-standards-based app work on several incompatible implementations. HTML/JS/CSS didn't come close at that time, but there was hope that it would develop to make Flash obsolete - which it now has.People always complained about how Flash &q
it was only a matter of time for something like this to appear. there was a reason flash was popular.the problem with flash was not what it did, but how it was implemented, as proprietary browser extension.doing the same with standard, browser supported javascript solves that problem.getting rid of flash was a long, hard battle. it potentially would have been easier if alternatives like this appeared earlier.
What's killing Flash is 10 years of buggy, awful software. No other multi-platform VM has had so many performance issues, so many security holes, and so many bugs that significantly degraded the user experience. JavaScript interpreters have never been as terrible as Flash. Java has never been as terrible as Flash. Flash's only claim to fame is its ubiquity. It will not be missed.
At the time, (most?) websites didn't adjust for responsive web either. There's nothing inherent about Flash that made it impossible to support responsive layouts with it. In fact, if anything, developing with Flash gave you more control over positioning than html/css did at the time.Sure, there were downsides to Flash. It's true that many Flash-based apps/websites used more battery power than html/css stuff. But I'd argue that this is an indicator that there
Flash was a buggy crap which made lots of older computers spawn cycles like crazy and had zero accesibility for the blind. It deserverd to die.
Cheer up. Flash was once as ubiquitous as JS is now. :)