Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday December 31, 2020 @12:50AM
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> It would be more enjoyable to develop
In my experience, cross-platform is less enjoyable to develop. Yes, it might be more valuable to users for a program to be cross-platform, but it is definitely more enjoyable to develop something that just has to run on a single platform.
For cross-platform work, you have to use languages, runtimes, and libraries that are supported across multiple platforms.
When you are doing single platform work, you can use all the cross-platform languages and libraries and tools, plus all the other languages, libraries and tools that are on the single platform.
I suspect the difference was even more stark in 1999 because Windows was even more dominant than it is now.
Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
by mgkimsal on Thursday December 31, 2020 @10:56AM
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It might be 'more enjoyable' to develop, but certainly not to test, which... for many people, seems to be something wholly separate from 'development'.
In my experience, cross-platform is less enjoyable to develop. Yes, it might be more valuable to users for a program to be cross-platform, but it is definitely more enjoyable to develop something that just has to run on a single platform.
For cross-platform work, you have to use languages, runtimes, and libraries that are supported across multiple platforms.
When you are doing single platform work, you can use all the cross-platform languages and libraries and tools, plus all the other languages, libraries and tools that are on the single platform.
I suspect the difference was even more stark in 1999 because Windows was even more dominant than it is now.