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A comment on Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020. Parent comment

Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by krferriter on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:42PM (#23535456)
Why was this ever allowed to be a browser plugin
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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by simcop2387 on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:16PM (#23535621)
Because people wanted it and nobody thought too hard about it at the time.
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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by afiori on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:57AM (#23538592)
because the web sucked in terms of functionality then, especially as an application delivery medium.

There is a parallel universe somewhere where Javascript was designed as a Turing incomplete basic interactivity template and now node runs ECMAFlash2019

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