Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games

Re:Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclu... by jterrys on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:09AM (#31059360)

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember how absolutely fucking garbage Flash was, and the source of many a web-based malware that haunted many a Windows user. I don't really blame Apple's decision not to support it. There's no way Jobs would've allowed such a disease prone plugin infesting his new platform.

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Re:Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclu... by smaudet on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:36AM (#31059889)

Are you sure it's any better? Last time I've used a JS heavy site the UX was just utterly awful. Flash had bad bits to be sure but it could be snappy. I had hope we could do better but a lot of sites seem as bad or worse on arguably better hardware.

I'm not sure the tech stack was ever to blame...people would have eventually fixed the bad parts of flash.

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Re:Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclu... by duskwuff on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:51PM (#31067210)

> Last time I've used a JS heavy site the UX was just utterly awful.

That's an issue with the web site, not the underlying technology.

> […] people would have eventually fixed the bad parts of flash.

The Flash plugin was a closed-source component. (Various attempts were made at open-source substitutes, but none ever reached a fully usable state.) The only people who could have "fixed the bad parts of Flash" were Adobe employees, and they didn't.

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Re:Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclu... by satellite2 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:48AM (#31060478)

Isn't there a bit of an anachronism in your post? I thought the end of flash support happened before his death.

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