Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly
by throwaway894345 on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:57PM
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I agree that that was a turning point for usage, but we're discussing popularity among developers. Flash was unpopular among developers long before Apple banned it.
Flash was on approximately 30% of websites before. It's hard to understand the argument that it was unpopular amongst devs.
Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly
by throwaway894345 on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:11PM
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Devs hated Flash for all of the reasons cited above, but browsers didn't support anything better for many use cases.
Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly
by ppseafield on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:32PM
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Indeed. As an example for a long time you had to have Flash to play a video on your page. The HTML5 video support eventually ended the need for Flash to do this, but it came much later and very slowly became supported cross-browser.
I think that while this is technically true, technical adequacy didn't lure developers away from Flash player. I believe that the real turning point was when Apple decided to break Adobe's monopoly on the web by disallowing Flash player on all their products.