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[Discuss] Chrome and Flash

And HTML5.

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:46 PM Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> Bill Horne wrote:
> > On 9/21/2019 10:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > And, I know that Flash's EOL is the end of next year, and good
> riddance.
> >
> >
> > I've never understood what Flash does or is supposed to do: what is it
> for?
>
> It's a language plus IDE plus runtime environment that offers easy
> interactive programs. There was a runtime player available for
> most browsers.
>
> People used to write games and video players in it.
>
> Problems: closed source, no open protocols, not particularly
> good at adapting to different screen sizes and shapes.  And
> the security story was non-existent.
>
> It's been effectively replaced by JavaScript, which doesn't have
> any of those problems, but is less user-friendly.
>
> -dsr-
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