That was just shonky code, nothing to do with flash itself.

All of it ?!?

I remember the time when pc fans hearable meant 95% that i opened a web page with a flash component by mistake...

Heh, I’ve used that test to guess if someone was running npm.

The flash runtime was pretty efficient but the authoring tools were so easy to use that anyone could produce "working" abominations filled with the most good awful code that got the result they wanted.

I guess there is nothing wrong with javascript either?

Humanity has proven it can't handle anything else than static pages. Then the developers themselves have to pay for their bloat rather than the users.

I’m taking about a bit earlier - ie before mobile phones.

Obviously flash was not designed for small screens or small batteries.

But it could have been adapted! If Adobe had been in any way competent or caring the flash runtime could have been converted to html5

But Adobe suck

> before mobile phones.

It was the same even before mobile phones. Laptops had batteries too. CPU fans sounded even worse than today when pegged at 100%.