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> P.S: oh, and if electron is flash, remember that flash won the web for 15 years while it sucked. And you know why ? Because it allowed people to do stuff they
by apostacy 10y ago
> P.S: oh, and if electron is flash, remember that flash won the web for 15 years while it sucked. And you know why ? Because it allowed people to do stuff they wanted easily, like videos and animations. And it's not because we couldn't do it any other way, we could. Yet we had to wait almost 2 decades to see it dies, at the price of battery, stability, security and everything else. Feature trumps everything. People. Don't. Care. We only manage to kill it because we finally replaced it with systems that could compete on easiness and features. So you know what to do.
I really miss the simplicity of a self contained swf file that could be embedded in an html page, but was usually also self contained and could be downloaded and run on its own. And of course they are tiny and fast. And I could run them in Linux, or even on my Palm Pilot. Except for battery consumption, were they really that bad?
- sametmax 10y agoThey were crashing your browser all the time, hogging randomly CPU and were the worst vector of malware infection ever. They destroy select, right click, history, scrolling and copy/paste. But I get your point, it's was really handy. Only this year HTML5 videos are starting to be on par with flash videos. Those were so light to download.
- apostacy 10y agoMost of those problems have been replicated with HTML5. Yes, HTML5 can do some cool things. But I also find myself missing flash sometimes. HTML5 was not a replacement. And, based on the direction things are going, I think it's only a matter of time until you can't even select text properly or scroll in a predictable way.
- sametmax 10y agoFew people rewrite scrollbar with HTML5 based tech. I have yet to see a virus propagate because of a W3C web API. For the memory/battery though, you are more and more right every day.
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