Re:Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
by jaimex2 on Friday June 23, 2023 @08:23PM
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Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience.
Mobile first was the issue. Adobe bought it and blundered about, they could still resurrect the thing but have no vision.
> Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience.
Linux and Windows. Yes, it ate power like it was free.
Re:Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
by jaimex2 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:10AM
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I'd love stats on that. I never had a machine slowdown because of it.
Re:Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
by rchaud on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:55PM
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What people forget is that web browsing in general sucked on the earliest mobile devices. Remember the mosaic tiling Safari would show if you tried to scroll the page faster than the browser could render it?
Taking that into consideration, Flash worked pretty damn well on Android. It wasn't doomed because of its mobile inefficiency. It was doomed because both Apple and Android knew that they could never convince developers to build for their 30% tax walled gardens if Flash remained a fee-free alternative on the open web.
Incidentally, last I checked, no replacement for the marquee tag, either. That tag had a lot of features, in fact, and when I looked a couple years back there seemed to be zero projects that could actually replace it completely. A bunch of things that used to be very easy to accomplish, using that tag, now aren't. (now, maybe none of those things should ever be done, I suppose, so perhaps it doesn't matter)