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Are we really sure it was Apple's fault? Their browser market share was always rather small and smaller outside the US. But Adobe seemed to reeeeeally abandon t
by buboard 7y ago
Are we really sure it was Apple's fault? Their browser market share was always rather small and smaller outside the US. But Adobe seemed to reeeeeally abandon the thing after apple's decision. They could have at least open sourced it
- djsumdog 7y agoWe'd be in a very different world of Adobe and Macromedia never merged. Adobe really killed flash, but maybe it was inevitable. From what I read, Flash's test suite was subpar to non-existent and people were afraid to touch anything in the codebase. It's so sad too because Flash is still amazing when it comes to animating vector graphics in a crossplatform way. Nothing in the HTML5 world remotely comes close. You can upscale Homestar Runner to 4k and it renders beautifully. Now that it's all YouTube videos, whatever resolution they rendered it at, there it will stay for forever (plus you lose all the clickable eastereggs in the Strong Bad e-mails!)
- shadowgovt 7y ago> From what I read, Flash's test suite was subpar to non-existent and people were afraid to touch anything in the codebase. If that's the case, Flash should be held up as a case study for the utility of robust tests. Because the amount of refactoring needed to make it fit the mobile world was significant, and if the codebase was fragile because of lack of tests, that refactoring may have proved expensive enough to kill the whole technology stack.