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gencha@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoThis is so wild. I really don’t miss Flash, but since Steve killed it with the iPhone, Web development has spent more than 10 years to reinvent the ActionScript3 environment and make the entire web depend on it. And who solely prevented AS3 as a web standard from happening? Chris Wilson, Web Standards Tech Lead at Google, in his former role at browser monopolist Microsoft.
Today, every single piece of the web is designed by Google to further their business. And all these fucking Electron applications…
I really don’t miss Flash,
Standardized “Flash”, well-sandboxed and separated from the browsers itself as it was, would be a good idea though.
to reinvent the ActionScript3 environment and make the entire web depend on it.
Unfortunately the separation part they “solved”.
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I wasn’t aware of that, but it’s crazy. Thanks for sharing it. The sad truth is that there are probably lots of other standards that didn’t make it into browsers either because Google refused to adopt them in Chrome (JPEG2000 for example, but that’s a complicated ). Google had way too much influence over web standards because they had total control of the web browser.