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This "7th reason" is indeed correct. Flash player enabled browsers with many features (mesh networking, hardware 3D, easy file system, tunable font antialiasing
by emdax 6y ago
This "7th reason" is indeed correct. Flash player enabled browsers with many features (mesh networking, hardware 3D, easy file system, tunable font antialiasing) which were subsequently stripped from browsers and forced into the paywalled garden.
- duskwuff 6y agoI'm not familiar with Flash's "mesh networking" (do you mean RTFMP, which hardly anyone used?), but "hardware 3D", "easy file system" and "tunable font antialiasing" are all available in HTML -- via WebGL, the File API, and the "font-smooth" and "text-rendering" CSS properties, respectively.
- emdax 6y agoYes openRTMFP and other p2p variants. And yes, you are correct, but we were talking 2006. Browsers relied on plugins for many of those capabilities.