Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by philwelch on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:04PM
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The people who brought us television were threatened by the internet, and so they are turning it into television.
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by newsgremlin on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:06AM
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Talking about this to certain devs is like talking to them about sports. They just don't get the learning curve was the most accessable for the average user, not just those who know how to program.
We know there are better technologies security wise and performance wise. It's not always about what is 'technically' better rather than something that people enjoyed using and opened the door to creative personalities for the web. There is a time and a place for both and I think there has been neglect for the other side of the brain.
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by robertoandred on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:08PM
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Except the Flash development tools still exist https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by buboard on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:12AM
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> can be done better (in several senses) with modern tools.
contestable. html5 games can be choppy in ways flash was not. even streaming video was pretty fast, comparing it to something like webrtc multi-party video. Hell even basic text-based chat like slack is a resource hog in html.
But that’s not what we’re talking about, is it? We can ask what’s actually being done in web design these days… and who’s doing it. If you’re old enough to remember the period from the late ’90s to the mid aughts, think about your friends who were putting all kinds of wacky, creative pages on the web. Picture that personality type. What place does it have in the universe of websites that we visit today?
The answer, as far as I’ve seen: user. We spend time on a smaller number of sites/platforms. The design of those sites tends to be (at its best) streamlined and optimized. And people who want to share their creativity are given little frames within that structure.
Even personal websites are usually built through WordPress, Squarespace, or similar. Something has been lost. I’m not going to say things are worse nowadays. That would be too sweeping a judgment, even if I substantially agreed with it, and I think I don’t. But I get this weird feeling when I spend time online, like it’s a tree that died some time ago, but it’s being reinforced, made to stand straighter than ever, given artificial leaves that never turn, etc.