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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by orthonormal on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:28AM (#25590435)
This is, in some sense, like comparing a factory to a product. HTML5 is the barebones of technological tools necessary to build something that does what flash can do, not the flash itself. Being content-first is up to YOUR SDK, not HTML5. Regarding single-file apps, when did the ability to use inline scripts and style vanish? Nothing prevents a tool to generate genuinely cross-platform "single-file" htmls.

Don't blame HTML5 for the fact that no one bothered to make a content-first studio out of it.

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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by NineStarPoint on Thursday December 31, 2020 @09:13AM (#25592818)
I think people aren’t blaming HTML5, but the people who said that HTML5 would do everything flash can do.

Like you said, that’s a bad comparison since they’re fundamentally different things. And killing flash without a replacement for the studio existing leaves a hole where it used to be. And it may be possible that Flash was a product of its time, and such a well integrated studio isn’t going to be made again for decades.

Which isn’t to say that Flash didn’t need to die. The security issues existed and I suspect that Adobe would have slowly killed it from neglect regardless. But HTML5 is not a replacement for what Flash was.

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