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We still watch hundred-year-old movies and read thousand-year-old books. Because people have put in the effort to preserve those things for us. Meanwhile, you'r
by cwyers 11y ago
We still watch hundred-year-old movies and read thousand-year-old books. Because people have put in the effort to preserve those things for us. Meanwhile, you're arguing that we shouldn't expend any effort so that people can watch five-year-old Flash cartoons.
In multiple posts, I've said deprecate it. No new Flash content. No reason to create more content that is encumbered by Flash's legacy status. (Although others here have pointed out that HTML5 is not quite as capable of replacing Flash as some think.) But why the huge rush to completely abolish the Flash content that already exists?
- jhall1468 11y agoWe absolutely don't watch all of the hundred-year-old movies or all of the thousand-year-old books, we read the BEST of those. The best of the flash content is going to be preserved via other mediums. Removing flash entirely has the added benefit of forcing the best content onto modern mediums. Depreciating it doesn't fix the security problems associated with it, it just extends them indefinitely.