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HTML has <canvas> now. Flash is essentially no different than that , except for the security holes, which are not unfixable. The other HTML equivalents of it ar
by buboard 7y ago
HTML has <canvas> now. Flash is essentially no different than that , except for the security holes, which are not unfixable. The other HTML equivalents of it are just too heavy resource hogs, including video players.
- justinator 7y agoWhat made Flash AMAZING was its authoring environment. Scripted multimedia content (via SWF) I could run and share in the browser in 1998! The first time I ever bought software was Flash 4. Watching, then sharing animations probably caused me to go to Art school. It was incredibly impressive stuff back then. I just to make or consume that sort of content anymore though. I couldn't even tell you how to do it using HTML, or how to author it. Speaking of school, <aside>I remember when I signed up for a Director course (Director!), and it was re-done into an advanced internet art class, and all I did was hand in HTML/Javascript assignments. I failed the class, as I worked on all that stuff during my job, the teacher didn't know anything about the tech, and I was inundated with questions on how to do cool stuff. </aside>
- buboard 7y agoIt got to the point where it was too annoying to visit all those different websites with animated intros, weird menus, sounds etc. It was like 1000000 cdroms on the browser. But yeah, thanks to 20 years of progress we can now stare at 1000000000 identical bootstrap homepages.
- justinator 7y agoAt the time, I remember being pretty OK with taking the terrible with the good - it all felt like experimenting to me, and I gravitated towards more of the designer-y/artsy sites, rather than the games and cartoons. This was back when David Carson was highly influential designer (for good or ill), and I was coming from skateboarding/snowboarding culture, which (and I sound so old) was a lot different, 20 years ago. Like it was COOL to be really into Typography, and the messier, the better. Because, "The 90's" I guess.
- bradstewart 7y agoI would be extremely happy if I saw "1000000000 identical bootstrap" websites every day. They're (usually) simple, and they (usually) work.
- buboard 7y agoI don't mind them either - i use bootstrap myself. But , i can't help to feel that i use it because i've given up on thinking i could do something functionally useful in today's web with my own CSS. It's become boring, tedious work, because mobile changes everything, you just can't do visually challenging designs there. Flash was overused as well - it was annoying. However, i believe that something being removed without having a better HTML equivalent is a bad sign of technological regression.
- CharlesW 7y ago> What made Flash AMAZING was its authoring environment. Which hasn't gone anywhere, but has been renamed Adobe Animate. https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
- justinator 7y agoWell, I've gone places now. Now it's not something I can budget a monthly price towards as a hobby, in perpetuity.
- pvg 7y agoFlash is essentially no different than that This isn't some defense of Flash and its attendant problems but Flash is very different from that. Canvas is a drawing surface, Flash has a full-blown component model. You can't put a canvas in a canvas.