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>Security! Glitches! those are all lies - that could have been fixed. I can't find it, but back when flash was being killed I recall seeing an analysis of Flas
by waste_monk 5y ago
>Security! Glitches! those are all lies - that could have been fixed.
I can't find it, but back when flash was being killed I recall seeing an analysis of Flash, the distilled conclusion of which was that the sandbox model was so fundamentally flawed that it would not be possible to fix it without breaking compatibility with basically all existing flash content.
And also given the decline of Flash in favor of HTML5+CSS+JS it was unjustifiable to spend the effort doing so.
- kmeisthax 5y agoMost of the single-SWF movies people think about when they think of Flash entirely fit within the current Web sandbox. Flash does have it's own bizzaro-world idea of CORS, though, which can cause issues with web services not aware of it. Adobe also went through a lot of work in AS3 to support "opaque" SWF content, i.e. being able to hotlink other domains' movies in the same way browsers can hotlink images. It is a concept that makes absolutely no sense in a post-Spectre world. But a lot of movies just outright don't need those features - it's definitely not a "rewrite all Flash Player content" situation.