Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Did it really though? Ruffle is a reimplantation of Flash in Rust, and is available as a browser extension. Anything short of malicious swf files will play. So it seems that any “security issues” were clearly mitigatable.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They were, but it was up to Adobe to fix them, which they didn’t

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• PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not true. It was not about that.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Then what was it?

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    • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It was proprietary, apple hated it because it wanted to sell apps. And Google followed that model.

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• DaGeek247@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We wish the security issues were what killed flash, but it had more than twenty years of security issues failing to kill flash. Flash died because it was replaced by newer technology.

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