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I recall only once seeing Flash being used to do something "out of the ordinary". It was a video at YouTube (back when it used Flash for its video player), whic
by cesarb 2y ago
I recall only once seeing Flash being used to do something "out of the ordinary". It was a video at YouTube (back when it used Flash for its video player), which in the middle of the video "escaped" its container and exploded over the whole page filling it with an animation (playing over the rest of the page elements), going back to normal once the animation finished. That probably required special support from YouTube's flash player, and would never be allowed with its current use of the browser's built-in video player.
- diggan 2y agoDefinitely as possible today with a canvas covering the entire page but being transparent, probably exactly what they did with the <object> container for that trick too. Flash was constrained to the container, just like <canvas> is, and surely it wasn't actually "escaping" from that container, but the container was drawn over the entire window. But, hard to know exactly how it was implemented without seeing the source, so I guess we'll never know.