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> to create true web apps that just happen to not use much of the control set that HTML exposes. That is exactly defeating the point. Flash apps were also "tru

by shawnz 6y ago

> to create true web apps that just happen to not use much of the control set that HTML exposes. That is exactly defeating the point. Flash apps were also "true web apps" that only happen to use the "limited control set" of just <embed>. > It's basically how every other platform works That's why there has never been a UI toolkit as successful as the web.

Hixie 6y ago
> Flash apps were also "true web apps" Not really. They were not portable. NPAPI was not a web standard in any meaningful sense (hint: the first N stood for Netscape). > That's why there has never been a UI toolkit as successful as the web. The web's success in terms of active users and in terms of deployed content is astounding, certainly. I think I'm relatively well placed to understand why, and I don't think it's because the web restricted developers to one scripting language or one set of controls. I think it is very much _despite_ that.