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The zoom was limited to the frame that the flash player sat in, so you'd end up with different parts of the website at different zoom levels.
Also flash wasn't responsive and couldn't flow like real website content can.
> Flash was the last thing that got people excited for the Web generally
That's only because all the capabilities were new, now they're built into the web itself. See:
- https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
- https://slowroads.io/
- https://photopea.com
- https://superspl.at/view?id=1eacd61c
- https://itch.io/games/platform-web
- https://alche.studio/
- https://ruinergame.com/ (scroll down)
- etc...
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The zoom was limited to the frame that the flash player sat in, so you'd end up with different parts of the website at different zoom levels.
Also flash wasn't responsive and couldn't flow like real website content can.
> Flash was the last thing that got people excited for the Web generally
That's only because all the capabilities were new, now they're built into the web itself. See:
- https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
- https://slowroads.io/
- https://photopea.com
- https://superspl.at/view?id=1eacd61c
- https://itch.io/games/platform-web
- https://alche.studio/
- https://ruinergame.com/ (scroll down)
- etc...