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But a website from the 1990s still works three decades later. Unless they used Applets, or Flash, or ActiveX, or RealPlayer or any of the other dozens of prop
by dagw 4y ago
But a website from the 1990s still works three decades later.
Unless they used Applets, or Flash, or ActiveX, or RealPlayer or any of the other dozens of proprietary 'web' technologies that came and went.
- drivers99 4y agoAll that, and assuming it’s still being hosted! I ran across an old bookmarks file I saved and virtually every link was dead. Or it could be partly dead, with the image hosting only not working for instance.
- pjmlp 4y agoMost of them have WebAssembly emulators available.
- NavinF 4y agoAFAIK there are no active projects that implement ActionScript 3.0 so most of the interesting Flash content is dead on the web.
- pjmlp 4y agohttps://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/ https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/
- NavinF 4y ago> Book A Demo Oof
- pjmlp 4y agoIf you had spent a couple of minutes actually looking for information, https://leaningtech.com/demo/ https://leaningtech.com/demo/ That book demo is common for the business space they are targeting, as they offer consulting services to port applications to WebAssembly.
- NavinF 4y agoOk that's neat and all, but I don't see any way to upload my own SWF files. Unfortunately most interesting Flash content are still dead on the web.
- origin_path 4y agoDon't even need those things. They won't work if they used DHTML, or IE specific JavaScript, or (I think?) framesets.
- JoeyJoJoJr 4y agoAnd not HTML5 games circa 2010. I remember reading a more recent tweet from a prolific web developer that 90% of his web HTML5 games from that era are broken. Meanwhile the AS2 Flash games I released on newgrounds in 2002 are still working fine. I kind of feel like the people calling for the destruction of Flash didn’t have quite the same dedication for creating a robust platform out of web standards.
- rchaud 4y agoFlash players likr Ruffle are available, and web apps at the time made it such that the .swf files remain easily extractable. The point is that the web at least encourages some of the hacking spirit of reverse engineering that makes computers interesting. Apple shuts that down unilaterally.