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I guess "don't break the web" doesn't apply here.

• Ajedi32 7y ago
  Flash was arguably never part of "The Web" in the first place. Not the open web anyway. It's a proprietary technology with a single implementation controlled and developed by a single company (Adobe) which is now ending support for it.
  • rchaud 7y ago
    The difference is that with Flash, you could write once and run it everywhere. This was huge at a time when cross-browser differences were major enough to require something like jQuery.
    • shadowgovt 7y ago
      everywhere *that looked like a desktop PC, which is why Flash floundered badly in the mobile era.
    • Ajedi32 7y ago
      Sure, that's the advantage of having a single implementation. The disadvantage is what we're experiencing right now: once that implementation is no longer maintained you're left with no alternative.
      • rchaud 7y ago
        That's true. My point was that even with Flash announcing several years ago that it would be sunset, nobody stepped up to build tools that worked with the open technologies of CSS, SVG and JS. Instead, what we have is a situation where pretty much only corporations with designers and devs on staff (Stripe and Spotify being the major examples) are building the types of sites that used to be doable by a single person using Flash.
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