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Wow, this really would have been a different past - similarly if flash had been able to draw into elements in the dom properly.
by stuaxo 8y ago
Wow, this really would have been a different past - similarly if flash had been able to draw into elements in the dom properly.
- BrendanEich 8y agoAlas we could not lure Andrew C. Myers away from his PhD at MIT under Liskov, which would have dashed his academic future hopes (he is a professor at Cornell). Netscape also had Jonathan Gay and his brother stop by to try to sell FutureSplash (what became Flash) to us post IPO, but so many companies were crowding the door, and the marketing guy vetting them was harsh, so they went to Macromedia. That was for the best: Netscape would not have built the great tools that Macromedia did. So two "what if" near-misses re: early canvas-for-HTML. Sad but true!