Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by excessive on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:32PM
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As consumers, most people probably only care about what modern browsers can do. As a developer, the mechanisms become front and center. Modern web development is a Rube Goldberg kluge of things glued together with duct tape. Flash was much more coherent and imposed less cognitive burden of tying it altogether.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by wavefunction on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:00PM
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Are you intending to reply to me? I agree with you to a certain extent regarding NPM madness.
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by kizer on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:33PM
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Not just NPM - the "web" is a diverse set of APIs with various peculiarities. It's not inviting to an artist with little to no programming experience (and even with the potential to learn). That was the advantage/disadvantage of flash - closed system, one (major) IDE, one language/standard library.