Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It
by zwetan on Friday July 27, 2018 @10:32PM
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Let this be a warning to young developers tying into browser platforms.
For all the openness of web standards, let's remember that browsers are proprietary.
If a browser vendor decide to do something (whatever it is, good or bad), there is pretty much nothing users or developers can do, we saw it with IE6 for a long time, we now see it with Google Chrome too.
AFAIK browser plugins were considered part of those web standards (see [0] and [1])
For all the openness of web standards, let's remember that browsers are proprietary.
If a browser vendor decide to do something (whatever it is, good or bad), there is pretty much nothing users or developers can do, we saw it with IE6 for a long time, we now see it with Google Chrome too.
AFAIK browser plugins were considered part of those web standards (see [0] and [1])
[0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html#p...
[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/system-state.html#plu...