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And Flash was proprietary. And its behavior was opaque. And it didn't mesh at all with the rest of your browser/website experience, as it was an embedded thing.
by TwoBit 6y ago
And Flash was proprietary. And its behavior was opaque. And it didn't mesh at all with the rest of your browser/website experience, as it was an embedded thing.
- adamredwoods 6y agoThe makers of the browsers (Apple, Google, Microsoft) didn't want to optimize for someone else's (especially not Adobe, not even Unity3D, if anyone remembers that) plugin. So WHATG and W3C made their own 'html5 canvas' that didn't truly get official until 2014 (but was adopted earlier in browsers). https://web.archive.org/web/20141106212543/http://www.cnet.com/news/html5-is-done-but-two-groups-still-wrestle-over-webs-future https://web.archive.org/web/20141106212543/http://www.cnet.c...