> If no browsers had support out of the box This was the original state of Flash and Java. This is when they grew. Trust me when I say: This would not be a

> If no browsers had support out of the box This was the original state of Flash and Java. This is when they grew. Trust me when I say: This would not be a problem. > and even plugins were hard to come by (browsers could actively prevent running anything it thinks is a flash plugin..) This is no longer Adobe 'kill'ing Flash Player, and also how you get a bunch of pissed users switching browsers or sticking to legacy versions. This shit right here is how you get IT departments sticking to IE 6. Although, this is perhaps a golden age of open source. Maybe we'd see hostile forks instead! And, of course, iOS Safari has already 'kill'ed Flash in this sense. On the one hand, it's added some pressure to transition to new tech stacks. On the other, since we're still asking questions about how to kill Flash Player, it clearly didn't do the job ;)