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Good OC. Thanks. The Browser Software Era designs are idiomatic. They're based on (CD-ROM era) multimedia and adventure games, not desktop apps. The earliest,

Good OC. Thanks. The Browser Software Era designs are idiomatic. They're based on (CD-ROM era) multimedia and adventure games, not desktop apps. The earliest, most influential web designers had been doing multimedia. The earliest creation tools were tailored for them. That aesthetic has been carried forward, for better or worse.

andai 3y ago
Show me one site that still looks/feels like Flash. (Actually, the more the merrier!)
- brirec 3y ago
  Flash is such a terrible choice for this analogy. Probably the one thing Flash sites all had in common was that they had nothing in common.
  - stanjo 3y ago
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anthk 3y ago
Multimedia and games were designed to be standalone, they interacted with themselves and that's it. Browsers, OTOH, used to dsplay content to be copied and pasted everywhere. Nowadays there are silos everywhere, and interoperatibiity sucks.