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Then you strip out interactivity. Which is a pretty huge component of making the internet interesting and weird. For its many sins, Flash was actually a pretty
by untog 8y ago
Then you strip out interactivity. Which is a pretty huge component of making the internet interesting and weird.
For its many sins, Flash was actually a pretty great sandbox for people to play with that way (as long as it didn't have one of its many security issues at the time)
- roywiggins 8y agoThere was a period when you could use Flash to invoke a javascript: protocol link and it would be executed in the containing page! They fixed it eventually but it was a great way to escape the Flash sandbox.
- jandrese 8y agoFlash seems like a good example of how it's incredibly difficult to secure a system like that, even with a sandbox. How many security updates did Flash have over the course of its life? Back in the heyday I remember it having to update multiple times a week.
- lazyjones 8y ago> How many security updates did Flash have over the course of its life? One. When they finally killed it. All other updates were more or less security sidegrades.