Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by jcelerier on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:46AM (#21245760)

> What can flash do that modern browsers can't?

ensuring that the user sees the exact same thing on any browser / operating system combination ?

Just the font rendering differences between windows / mac make it impossible to create text that is supposed to fit perfectly in a given box because hinting differences may mean that you are a few pixels longer which can change the layout of a paragraph, etc...

with flash, there is only one single way things look across all platforms.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by shaunofthedev on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:45AM (#21248166)

(Former Flash dev)

A consistent display was a nice thing to count on when making little games, applets and ads. However for general web layout it made accessibility features difficult to impossible to implement.

I'd also add that behaviour wasn't always consistent. There would still be OS/environment specific bugs that would crop up from time to time. (Though granted, these would rarely be related to rendering or layout)

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by jcelerier on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:04AM (#21248387)

> However for general web layout

well, that was not the point of flash, was it ?

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