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Better. JavaScript is a web standard.

• mhh__ 6y ago
  And flash couldn't have been one? Edit: I was 9 when Jobs wrote his thing on Flash, so I appreciate the downvotes for asking a question?
  • vondur 6y ago
    Probably would not happen under Adobe.
  • muldvarp 6y ago
    Flash was proprietary, didn't have a specification and only one real implementation ever existed.
    • johnchristopher 6y ago
      Flash was using actionscript which was ecma262-3/4.
      • duskwuff 6y ago
        ActionScript only "existed" on the authoring side. Scripts were compiled to (proprietary) bytecode before being embedded in the SWF file. Besides, there's a lot more to SWF than the scripts.
      • deleted 6y ago
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    • userbinator 6y ago
      What is all this BS about it being proprietary... https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/swf-file-format-spec.pdf https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/swf-fil... Straight from the horse's mouth, as they say. There's also a few other implementations, although they found use embedded in games and such instead of being browser plugins.
      • anthk 6y ago
        It was and gnash/lightspark barely worked.
  • eropple 6y ago
    Could have? Sure, if some things broke the right way. Was gonna be? Not that I know of. Did? No.