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Flash Crash
5 years ago
No lemon-
It's sad to see Flash not only lose official support but have every major browser actively trying to kill it; Flash was a huge part of my childhood and a massive part of internet history for everyone.
Newgrounds. Kongregate. Countless animations re-uploaded to Youtube. Many popular mainstream games started as simpler Flash versions.
And corporations want to straight up erase all that so it can be replaced with... what? Unity and HTML5? Most sites are still figuring out how to host Webm for animations.
Newgrounds. Kongregate. Countless animations re-uploaded to Youtube. Many popular mainstream games started as simpler Flash versions.
And corporations want to straight up erase all that so it can be replaced with... what? Unity and HTML5? Most sites are still figuring out how to host Webm for animations.
It certainly has no real advantages over standard HTML, it hogs more system resources to load and run it all. It adds unnecessary complexity to a web page meaning that a single bug in the wrong place can easily render a vital site function unusable or freeze up the browser. The internet protocol was really never designed for this in the first place.
Personally, I think we've let things slide for too long. The suits are in control of the internet and there's no way to prise it back out of their claws now (short of a revolution!)
Maybe one day in the future, we'll finally put it out of its misery and make our own internet:
https://www.inverse.com/article/395.....neutrality-fcc