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.
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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.