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Flash and HTML5 never were the same thing. Flash always seemed to be an easier and more approachable way to do applets than Java. As it aged, it also became a k
by indymike 6y ago
Flash and HTML5 never were the same thing. Flash always seemed to be an easier and more approachable way to do applets than Java. As it aged, it also became a kind of universal functionality plug-in that let people build experiences that you just couldn't do with HTML and JavaScript at the time. The spiritual successor to Flash (and Java applets) is probably more WebAssembly than HTML5 - although many parts of HTML5 do things that a Flash piece would have been used for 15-20 years ago.
- azangru 6y ago> The spiritual successor to Flash <...> is probably more WebAssembly than HTML5 The author's point is that Flash had GUI authoring tools and was "content-first", whereas js and infinitely more so webassembly are programmer-first. It doesn't bother me a bit (am a programmer), but it does bother him.
- indymike 6y agoI wonder how long it will be until there are content authoring tools that build to WebAssembly? For a long time, Flash was kind of the runtime for stuff you couldn't do in the browser with HTML + JS.