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Web dev (as in: HTML and CSS) improved a lot in the last 20-30 years. But if I had to quickly make a fully functioning interface and had the choice between toda
by wongarsu 3y ago
Web dev (as in: HTML and CSS) improved a lot in the last 20-30 years. But if I had to quickly make a fully functioning interface and had the choice between today's web and 2002's Delphi 7 I'd choose Delphi 7 in a heartbeat. And just look at what non-technial people were able to do with Macromedia Flash in the early 2000s. You need experienced frontend devs to recreate what designers did as a hobby back then.
Of course those solutions don't solve the transition between desktop and mobile layout (since that wasn't a thing back then), but more some modern frameworks solve that well (like whatever MS calls UWP right now) without forcing everyone to reinvent a way to do infinite scrolling without running out of memory
- phist_mcgee 3y agoThis reads as if written by someone with rose tinted glasses.
- text0404 3y ago+1. would love to see an example of something created in Flash by a single designer that takes a team of frontend devs to create today. fyi folks, Flash is also based on ECMAScript! just because the mid-90s tooling built by Macromedia triggers your nostalgia doesn't mean it was better!