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To be fair, they could be entirely disjoint sets of people, but I’m surprised by the simultaneous 1) hate for JavaScript[0] and the “modern web” and 2) praise f
by BalinKing 1y ago
To be fair, they could be entirely disjoint sets of people, but I’m surprised by the simultaneous 1) hate for JavaScript[0] and the “modern web” and 2) praise for all the Flash-based websites from the ‘90s–‘00s. To be fair, my first interactions with the web were largely after the “Flash for everything” era, so I might be out-of-the-loop: Did corporate Flash-based homepages get the same reaction then that SPAs do now?
[0] I do strongly dislike JavaScript myself, but specifically from the perspective of language design.
- reactordev 1y agoFlex was amazing. It was flash based app builder for enterprises with a robust ecosystem of “components”. It was the React of Flash.
- githubholobeat 1y agoAn alternative exists to Flex. It is called Apache Royale [https://royale.apache.org/ https://royale.apache.org/]. Here is a components showcase [https://royale.apache.org/tourdejewel/ https://royale.apache.org/tourdejewel/]
- reactordev 1y agoYeah, no, HTML won. Sorry.
- CM30 1y agoOh, I remember a lot of developers hated Flash back in the olden days, especially those that focused their efforts on usability or who wanted to advance web standards. Case in point: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flash-99-percent-bad/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flash-99-percent-bad/ Heck, I'm sure at least some people celebrated when Adobe pulled support for Flash, just like some people probably would now if the likes of React went away forever.