HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash

Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by worik on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:31PM (#25588950)

Do you not recall that flash was a the worst of the closed source rubbish.

It never played well on any system I cared to use. The tools to generate it were unavailable to the likes of me and a lot of people here, who back in the day were second class citizens.

Also it tried to make the the Web TV before there was anywhere enough processing power at the ends nor bandwidth in the middle.

Designers on their expensive powerful machines built magnificent content that nobody who respected the technology in their personal stack, and paid a reasonable price for their infrastructure could use.

Well, back in the day we may have been second class citizens. How the world has changed. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by larsiusprime on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:43PM (#25589019)

Seriously like 90% of the flash content creators I knew were using pirated versions at some point in their careers, for what it's worth.

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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by andai on Thursday December 31, 2020 @12:35AM (#25589910)

Who do you mean when you say we?

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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by pjmlp on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:02AM (#25591269)

Probably the GNU/Linux users that now jump of joy when given Electron apps or Wine/Proton based games.

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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by ogre_codes on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:08PM (#25595244)

Never really thought about what a blessing Electron is for Linux users. Electron means Linux Desktop users are a build away rather so they get the same resource hogging apps Windows and Mac users do.

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