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Who needs a conspiracy when your product creates such a terrible user experience? I've never written a lick of flash, and I don't care to. I still have awful
by inferiorhuman 3y ago
Who needs a conspiracy when your product creates such a terrible user experience? I've never written a lick of flash, and I don't care to. I still have awful memories of just how broken Flash sites were. They'd stick out like a sore thumb since none of the widgets ever worked like native ones, there were constantly keyboard focus issues in Firefox, video never seemed to be accelerated and would decimate battery life, the privacy nightmare of the persistent cookies you'd need to load a flash app from Adobe to clear (permissions as with everything else gave the finger to the host system/browser). Who could forget the near constant security and stability issues? I, for one, am glad flash died.
Flash died because while it sucked on desktop systems, it was somehow way worse on mobile just as mobile was becoming more important.
- pjmlp 3y agoIf only Web development 10 years later was half of the developer experience of using Flash.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoIs it though? Folks using the current tech stack du jour have still managed to recreate the user hostility that Flash pioneered.
- pjmlp 3y agoJust because I can cook in the middle of the forest, doesn't mean the tooling is the same as on a Michelan restaurant.
- phendrenad2 3y agoWell, we've now gone from "none of the widgets ever worked like native ones" to "there is nothing even remotely in the same category as OS widgets available to the developer". Not sure if it's an improvement.