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If Flash had been open source early on it might have succeeded and become a core web technology. Microsoft, Apple and Google would have been in charge making th

If Flash had been open source early on it might have succeeded and become a core web technology. Microsoft, Apple and Google would have been in charge making the runtime secure and high performing. Macromedia/Adobe would have continued to be in the position of providing the leading development tools. The web would be very different. I actually think that we are lucky this did not happen. I find our current web technologies to be a much better solution over all.

factotvm 11y ago
> I find our current web technologies to be a much better solution over all. Really? It what sense? I just now see TypeScript coming close to parity with what ActionScript provided several years ago--and the tooling is nowhere near there (though I have not used Visual Studio). I feel like our current web technologies are more the VHS to Flash's Betamax.
byron_fast 11y ago
The SWF format has been open source for more than a decade.