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I imagine it may have been attractive to those who liked Flash.
by bobthepanda 6mo ago
I imagine it may have been attractive to those who liked Flash.
- oldsecondhand 6mo agoOG actionscript was very similar to Javascript. It only started to diverge when type hints were introduced.
- gsnedders 6mo agoAS2 was mostly following the direction of ES4 — so it wouldn’t have diverged if it hadn’t been abandoned.
- pbhjpbhj 6mo agoI think it may have been the other way (ie attractive to those who didn't like flash) - SVG was seen as a potential flash replacement?
- kilna 6mo ago> SVG was seen as a potential flash replacement? Yes, that was a large part of the thrust back in the day. Even if it wasn't officially a goal of the SVG working group, there was a lack of an open standards-based alternative to what Flash was able to do, and the developers of the SVG standard saw that adding animation/tweening wouldn't take much given what browsers were already becoming capable of.
- bobthepanda 6mo agoa little bit of a, a little bit of b. to displace flash if you don't like it, SVG has to have flash-like features to appeal to those who do use it and steal them away.