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There were definitely a lot of flash sites around back in the day. But anyway, flash support/popularity had nothing to do with IE losing control of setting brow
by cookie_monsta 7y ago
There were definitely a lot of flash sites around back in the day. But anyway, flash support/popularity had nothing to do with IE losing control of setting browser standards because IE never set browser standards in the first place - in fact it quite often flouted them.
- scarface74 7y agoI’m saying that IE and Flash’s popularity didn’t decline because of government intervention - the tool that seems to be the go to of HN posters anytime there is something that they don’t like - even though what ended IE and Flash’s popularity on the web wasn’t the government.
- cookie_monsta 7y agoOh, I'm sorry - I thought you were talking to me. You appear to be having a conversation with somebody else about government intervention.
- scarface74 7y agoSince “monopoly” has a legal meaning, what do you think the next step is when people on HN start talking about it?
- cookie_monsta 7y agoWell being that I was talking about IE pre-2010 I guess the next step would be to reminisce... maybe hope not to repeat the mistakes of the past? What do you suggest?