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Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? by emodendroket on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:25AM (#17617236)
To be fair, there were reasons those things fell out of favor; there was a real tendency for crazy, uneditable code that was way larger than it needed to be. Perhaps some of these things would be less of an issue now (honestly, a bunch of wasteful code is less of an issue now than when most of us were on 56k modems), but they weren't made-up.
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Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? by fipar on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:36AM (#17617340)
Absolutely, my first link was 2400 so I know exactly what you mean :)

And I know there are still issues. Given today's speed, issues are more about security and accessibility.

My point was just that the artists using flash to create good content were not amateur animators.

Edit: My point was wrong as it was based on a misunderstanding of the use of the word 'amateur' by the person I was replying to.

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Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? by bitwize on Thursday July 26, 2018 @01:24PM (#17619143)
The only good content in Flash was games and animations (like Homestar Runner). If you were using Flash as a Web/application design tool, you weren't making good content. You were making a pain in my ass.
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Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday July 26, 2018 @02:01PM (#17619445)
Still waiting here for ADP and weather.gov to get their shit together and enter the 21st century.
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Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? by gbear605 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:17PM (#17620134)
What Flash content does weather.gov have? Their website visually appears a bit outdated, but it works just fine.
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Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:53PM (#17621622)
The looping radar views use flash [1] [2]. The composite regional radar loops don't though [3]. That is unfortunate because the former has more information and detail. There's no reason why it can't be reimplemented with canvas or SVG to manage the overlays.

[1] https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=buf&product=N0R&over...

[2] https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=BUF&product=N0R&over...

[3] https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/northeast_loop.php

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