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They were crashing your browser all the time, hogging randomly CPU and were the worst vector of malware infection ever. They destroy select, right click, histor
by sametmax 10y ago
They 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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