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Just because it's popular to hate on Flash everyone forgets about the good times it brought. Back in school, flash games were all the rage and you could bet if

Just because it's popular to hate on Flash everyone forgets about the good times it brought. Back in school, flash games were all the rage and you could bet if we were on the computers for a lesson 90% of the time would be spent on the helicopter game or motorbike sport!

eli 11y ago
And at one point a practical alternative was Java Applets.
PretzelFisch 11y ago
I never had any love for flash but it's demise brought down Silverlight which as a windows developer was a great way to build a LOB targeting mac and windows. It's to bad that Flashes association with ad networks doomed it rather then all the advancements it gave to the web so early on.
sobkas 11y ago
How it's even relevant? Just because some people enjoyed flash in the past doesn't changes the fact that now it is a menace and everyone would be much better without it. So pack you misguided nostalgia and put it next to your Sonic the Hedgehog figurines(they are dolls and you know it).
- nightski 11y ago
  There are quite a few times I have legitimately used flash where it has improved my web browsing experience. HTML5 canvas? Not so much. Maybe some day. But it hasn't had very much impact so far. It really is disappointing plugins are being removed from Chrome. I am seriously considering moving to a new browser. Those who didn't like it could just disable it.
- hacker_9 11y ago
  'menace' is a bit too strong of a word. Alternatives for development are a good thing, just look at the native world and the constant innovation that goes on there (go, rust etc). This idea that everything on the web should be shoehorned into html + javascript is hugely flawed because the ideas behind those technologies are so antiquated. The web model is completely broken but everyone just keeps on ignoring the root problem and just patch over it with 'innovative' frameworks like angular or react...
radmuzom 11y ago
Back in the day, a lot of my friends and me (mostly introvert and socially not very popular) used to spend a lot of time playing dating Flash games where the ultimate reward was sex. Good times!

eli 11y ago

And at one point a practical alternative was Java Applets.

PretzelFisch 11y ago

I never had any love for flash but it's demise brought down Silverlight which as a windows developer was a great way to build a LOB targeting mac and windows. It's to bad that Flashes association with ad networks doomed it rather then all the advancements it gave to the web so early on.

sobkas 11y ago

How it's even relevant? Just because some people enjoyed flash in the past doesn't changes the fact that now it is a menace and everyone would be much better without it. So pack you misguided nostalgia and put it next to your Sonic the Hedgehog figurines(they are dolls and you know it).

nightski 11y ago
There are quite a few times I have legitimately used flash where it has improved my web browsing experience. HTML5 canvas? Not so much. Maybe some day. But it hasn't had very much impact so far. It really is disappointing plugins are being removed from Chrome. I am seriously considering moving to a new browser. Those who didn't like it could just disable it.
hacker_9 11y ago
'menace' is a bit too strong of a word. Alternatives for development are a good thing, just look at the native world and the constant innovation that goes on there (go, rust etc). This idea that everything on the web should be shoehorned into html + javascript is hugely flawed because the ideas behind those technologies are so antiquated. The web model is completely broken but everyone just keeps on ignoring the root problem and just patch over it with 'innovative' frameworks like angular or react...

radmuzom 11y ago

Back in the day, a lot of my friends and me (mostly introvert and socially not very popular) used to spend a lot of time playing dating Flash games where the ultimate reward was sex. Good times!