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> I remember people building whole sites in Flash. Like some kind of Single Page App that takes forever to download, breaks the back button and has obfuscated
by hnzix 8y ago
> I remember people building whole sites in Flash.
Like some kind of Single Page App that takes forever to download, breaks the back button and has obfuscated source code? Lucky we're past that phase!
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYes, but with Flash pages scrolling rarely worked at all (people were too lazy to implement it), text wasn't searchable or copy-pastable, and no keyboard shortcuts worked, anywhere. JS SPAs are bad, but not that bad, because browser defaults are sane, and getting around them is hard. Or in other words, web starts working by default, and developers have to work to break it. Flash had no defaults, you started with blank slate and implement everything yourself.