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Anon misses flash (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.

And the shitty slow overly complicated 'web app' pages that could've presented the same content in a hundred lines of HTML. That was done in Flash before it was done in JavaScript.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, flash filled a gaping hole in html and css standards for a hot minute. Heck for the longest time flash was the best way to serve a video player because of those limitations. It also was instrumental in enabling animated videos on the Internet in a time when video on the web was too bandwidth intensive to be viable. We're talking the days of Internet connections measured in individual megabit per second being "fast" and dialup not being uncommon

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Y'all had megabit connections?