Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by metafunctor on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:41PM (#21243278)

Flash sites were creative, in that they were occasionally built by people with amazing talent and great skill.

Most of the time, though, Flash was the multimedia CD-ROM of the web. Flash was an extension shoehorned in, didn't feel like the rest of the web, and didn't deeply integrate with the browsing experience.

Flash content was an alien rectangle, a wormhole into a strange dimension, where a mouse click would often not behave anything like a mouse click usually would.

Flash pretended to be on the web, but Flash was not of the web. That's why it's now gone.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by excessive on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:58PM (#21243411)

Heh, this is really a matter of perspective. If you think the rest of the web was wonderful, then Flash was a turd floating in a swimming pool. If you think the web is a poorly designed shoddy mess, then you might think Flash was a raft keeping you afloat in the sewer.

HTML and JavaScript are so sloppy and incrementally improved by accretion rather than taste, I lean towards the sewer point of view.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by code_duck on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:54PM (#21244162)

I couldn't stand the lack of bookmarking, history, back and forward buttons, the use of sounds and music, and lack of ability to view source.

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