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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by skunkpocalypse on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:36AM (#21369335)
WHATWG should have published a standard to replace Flash -- all the same goals as Flash, but a clean-slate standards-driven design.

Instead they infected the HTML standard with everything Flash was being used for.

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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by zozbot234 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:55AM (#21369408)
Um, they did exactly that via HTML canvas. Replacing the main use cases for both Flash and Java applets.
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