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Re:Plain Vanilla Web by cosmic_cheese on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:00PM (#43958332)
Nothing got my old iMac G5 whipped into a frenzy like loading a page that had Flash on it somewhere. I’m not kidding when I say that there were many areas in World of Warcraft, a full-fat seamless open world 3D MMORPG, that didn’t make its fans as angry as Flash could manage to.

I was so happy when it finally started to disappear. That kind of sheer disregard for my system resources is inexcusable.

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Re:Plain Vanilla Web by roywiggins on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:21PM (#43958447)
I wonder what could have been if it had had the same effort applied to optimize it as JavaScript did.
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Re:Plain Vanilla Web by cosmic_cheese on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:53PM (#43958643)
It probably could’ve been great, but unfortunately such a thing would’ve been unlikely at best with Flash being solely controlled by Adobe. Not only does that company have a disinclination towards optimization that persists to this day, but with there having been no alternative implementations of Flash, there was no possibility of other organizations taking up that torch or for there to be competition between implementations driving things forward.
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