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How is Flash more cross-platform than HTML/CSS/JavaScript?
by robertoandred 6y ago
How is Flash more cross-platform than HTML/CSS/JavaScript?
- oblio 6y agoApple controls the genie in HTML/CSS/JavaScript very tightly. There is one and only one browser engine on iOS, the one that Apple makes. Everyone and everything has to use it. Secondly, they can hobble it at will, just like they're doing now with progressive web apps. We've had progressive web apps for how long? 5 years? Safari still doesn't really support them. I wonder why? Might it have to do with the business selling tens of billions of dollars of platform-specific applications each year? Nah, that can't be! :-)
- robertoandred 6y agoExcept iPhones have supported HTML/CSS/JavaScript for 13 years, well before they supported apps.