We've just spent the last 10 years spinning to get back to where we were, because Steve Jobs vetoed Flash support. Before that, we bailed on similar capabiliti

We've just spent the last 10 years spinning to get back to where we were, because Steve Jobs vetoed Flash support. Before that, we bailed on similar capabilities from Java applets, and had to reimplement them. Doubtless there's multiple technologies before my time that gave us the same powers, but were abandoned because reasons.