• olympicyes@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Flash was a buggy piece of shit and was blocking development of HTML 5. Adobe was the monopolist in that scenario not Apple. Sorry about Newgrounds and Strongbad but Flash had to go.

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      23 hours ago

      lmao thanks for the laugh. HTML / JS is still a buggy pile of slop. Apple and Google both dropped support so they could stop Flash from providing app experiences through the browser and forced people into their own app stores. Flash was installed on 99% of computers around the world. It was top tier web and it STILL hasn’t recovered. The current web experience is complete garbage in comparison.

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        5 hours ago

        HTML / JS is still a buggy pile of slop.

        In what world is JavaScript considered buggier than Flash, either in the actual content in the wild or the client-side software rendering/running that content? It wasn’t true when Flash died and certainly isn’t true today.

        Flash was a security nightmare, with all sorts of kludges patched on to try to deal with fundamental flaws in how it handled privileges. If you want to go back to the days where zero click exploits can take over your machine just from a browser visiting the wrong URL, leave the rest of us out of that vision.

        The current web experience is complete garbage in comparison.

        Mm, and what makes you think that handing Adobe the keys to control everyone’s web experience would make it better?

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          5 hours ago

          “In what world is JavaScript considered buggier than Flash” if I have to walk you through this then this conversation is over lmao