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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by arbitrage on Thursday December 31, 2020 @12:23AM (#25589858)
there wasn't really a mobile market to speak of during the hey-day of flash.

it was an awful and wonderful time to experience the constant breakage and delight that was the www.

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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by j45 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:23AM (#25592406)
I thought the same until I discovered flash lite. It quietly powered the gui on many more devices than I ever imagined in its time.

Nokia adopted it and it was quietly embedded in far more devices to provide custom functionality than I realized.

Flash lite even appeared to power the internet channel on the Nintendo Wii.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Lite

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