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[-] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 225 points 4 weeks ago

To be fair, flash was garbage proprietary tech fully under control of fucking Adobe. All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 104 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Iirc, wasn’t flash deprecated because of unpatchable bugs that created a gaping hole in your browser security?

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago

Ironically I believe flash mostly died for that as a founding moment on why apple would not support it on iPhones. Adobe only finally killed it after safari decided it wouldn’t support it

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Risky click of the day...

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 43 points 4 weeks ago

Well, it used to be a brilliant innovation by Macromedia.

[-] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Then like all things bought by Adobe… it became complete shit.

[-] drosophila 24 points 4 weeks ago

All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.

And the shitty slow overly complicated 'web app' pages that could've presented the same content in a hundred lines of HTML. That was done in Flash before it was done in JavaScript.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 points 4 weeks ago

To be fair, flash filled a gaping hole in html and css standards for a hot minute. Heck for the longest time flash was the best way to serve a video player because of those limitations. It also was instrumental in enabling animated videos on the Internet in a time when video on the web was too bandwidth intensive to be viable. We're talking the days of Internet connections measured in individual megabit per second being "fast" and dialup not being uncommon

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Y'all had megabit connections?

[-] sadparty@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

I had dial up. Load a page and walk away and do something else for a bit. 56 kbit/s was theoretical max. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

Point: early_to_risa.

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