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Flash was on approximately 30% of websites before. It's hard to understand the argument that it was unpopular amongst devs.
by als0 7y ago
Flash was on approximately 30% of websites before. It's hard to understand the argument that it was unpopular amongst devs.
- throwaway894345 7y agoDevs hated Flash for all of the reasons cited above, but browsers didn't support anything better for many use cases.
- ppseafield 7y agoIndeed. As an example for a long time you had to have Flash to play a video on your page. The HTML5 video support eventually ended the need for Flash to do this, but it came much later and very slowly became supported cross-browser.