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I couldn't possibly agree more with this article. It is still possible to do the kinds of things that Flash did now-a-days with HTML5 canvas, but it requires a
by jugg1es 7y ago
I couldn't possibly agree more with this article. It is still possible to do the kinds of things that Flash did now-a-days with HTML5 canvas, but it requires a lot more programming abilities than Flash required.
Websites for design firms were literal masterpieces. Now, those same firms have beautiful, yet predictable, websites.
The user experience was entirely unique from site to site. No side vertical stack of buttons, no top nav bar. Designers back then encouraged exploration. You just don't see that anymore.
Overall, websites are way better now. But we have certainly lost something as the entire web has become commoditized and homogenized. No one is willing to take risks anymore. The late 90s and 2000's was a different kind of internet than it is now, for sure.
- bredren 7y agoBut there is far more competition than there was before. People have devices allowing them shorter attention span to get to value than before. This change is not only because of the loss of flash.
- buboard 7y agoThe people competing are the top 3 companies who won the race. The rest have quit trying and are just copying them. There is far less competition, the internet became an oligopoly