Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit
by username223 on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:38PM
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> If anyone killed Flash and Java, it was Apple by refusing to support either on the iPhone.
Apple may have put the nail in the coffin, but long before that quite a few developers and users were avoiding Java programs when there were alternatives, and ClickToFlash was a popular browser plug-in. As they often do, Apple saw which way the wind was blowing.
Apple may have put the nail in the coffin, but long before that quite a few developers and users were avoiding Java programs when there were alternatives, and ClickToFlash was a popular browser plug-in. As they often do, Apple saw which way the wind was blowing.