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Some of you might remember when a 3mb flash animation could pack in some 5 minutes of animation, with the more advanced ones even having chapter/scene selectors, which could also include clickable easter eggs and other kinds of interactions during the scenes.

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[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Those last things you listed were all true of Flash too:

  1. Back forward buttons, working in a flash site?
  2. Scroll bars? Same thing.
  3. CPU usage? Same thing. (See: phone performance.)
  4. Crashes? It was the number one cause of crashes as reported by Apple when looking at their Safari crash logs. This was true of many plugins of that style from back in the day (being unstable).
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 4 days ago

I know, which is why I mentioned them. We got rid of flash, but people were so fucking nostalgic for the worst parts that they put it all back into their JS frameworks

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