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Flash and Silverlight break default browser functionality, they're very hard to make flexible past a certain point, they are slow, they require separate plugins
by unalone 18y ago
Flash and Silverlight break default browser functionality, they're very hard to make flexible past a certain point, they are slow, they require separate plugins, and they don't add anything in terms of usability. In fact, they very often detract from usability.
That's not a good shift.
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoBut that's exactly the result of not dumping old browsers. If developing for the browser drags productivity down as much as it does, mainstream developers will dump the browser, or - more realistically - reduce the browser to a plugin installation platform.
- unalone 18y agoIt is. You called it a paradigm shift, however, which it isn't. I banned IE on my personal site a little while ago. It's so satisfying not having to worry about it.