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> It was controlled by a single company, IDEs were paid for, it was more marketed to designer types, and it was frequently slow and used for apps and annoying
by stonogo 8y ago
> It was controlled by a single company, IDEs were paid for, it was more marketed to designer types, and it was frequently slow and used for apps and annoying stuff.
So aside from the IDE cost and marketing, there's no difference.
- ppseafield 8y agoIt was also a massive vector for security vulnerabilities.
- coldtea 8y agoPerhaps you've missed the "controlled by a single company", made for designer types (by marketing to I don't just mean how it was promoted), slow, and used for ads and annoying stuff like flash screens and such.
- stonogo 8y agoAre you saying that web standards are not controlled by a single company? That is not how I interpret the behavior of the relevant standards bodies of the past decade.
- lone_haxx0r 8y agoMore importantly: Flash was closed source.
- irascible 7y agoFlash was garbage code hidden behind closed source. The fact that it achieved so much was just an artifact of the dire need for a web graphics api.