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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by ken on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:32PM (#21243635)
I hear this a lot, but where was the Android or BlackBerry or Windows phone that ran Flash acceptably fast, and without weekly security holes?

Mobile killed Flash. It was a poorly implemented technology which was acceptable only during the era where electric power was unlimited, and people were in the habit of frequent reboots to update their OS anyway.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by rezmason on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:20AM (#21245248)
It's worth noting that the Flash platform originated on mobile devices, and pivoted to a Netscape Plugin when the mobile market proved to be premature (early nineties).

For those of you half-considering building a Flash player replacement, I suspect the majority of Flash content (especially pre-AS3) can run performantly on modern mobile browsers with a canvas Context2D shim. Maybe even on 2010-era mobile devices.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by davidwitt415 on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:22PM (#21250561)
Windows CE and Ipaq. I created mobile tour apps for museums like the Louvre, LA County Museum, SFMOMA and the Whitney that successfully served tens of thousands of people daily in the mid/late 2000s.
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