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Post by marcus_holmes »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #108
marcus_holmes wrote: post #74

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> You're in the 0.001%. Your asks are arcane and orthogonal to most users of software, who just want their PC to do something neat and useful. Right up until enshittification kicks in and suddenly everyone cares and there are shouts of destroying the evil techbros who are poisoning the minds of our youth to buy a new yacht. Can you imagine the situation if Jobs hadn't killed Flash? Most of the commercial websites req…

> Most of the commercial websites required a Flash blob to deliver full functionality Being a binary blob is not a strong argument all by itself. chrome.exe, firefox.exe, etc. are also binary blobs. I have no love for Adobe, but that specific criticism is weak.

I think there's a difference between a single-install binary blob to run the entire browser, and a binary blob required to view a single website in the browser. But I don't think it's a huge difference, for sure.

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Post by FLHerne »

KPGv2 wrote: post #271
pjmlp wrote: post #174

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And now were back with WebAssembly, WebGL, WebGPU, targeting 10+ year old graphic cards, without comparable easy of use tooling. Those that think using Godot or Unity is the same, never did Flash games.

Those are all open web standards, though. Flash was a proprietary platform. I can't even run Flash stuff anymore because it was proprietary.

Ruffle is quite good now. I haven't found many applets that don't work with it.

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Post by spider-mario »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #276
spider-mario wrote: post #262

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That’s not at all how I remember it (having used it in the Macromedia Flash 8 era, around 2006 or so). You would set your animation’s framerate and that would determine how often your `onEnterFrame` would run.

Framerate was for scripts, animation was interframe.

To be clear, by “animation”, I meant the whole SWF document. Do you mean that tweens were decoupled from the document’s framerate?

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Post by ako »

jamiek88 wrote: post #178
ako wrote: post #170

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I think the Appstore was planned all along, just did not fit in the first release, so they adapted the launching narrative to: "the browser is enough for all 3rd party software".

No, Steve was very vocally against it until jailbreaks forced the issue. It’s well documented.

Sure, they’ll say whatever is needed to sell the products they have.

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Retr0id wrote: post #265
giancarlostoro wrote: post #247

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I wonder which one's more "Evil" Oracle or Adobe, it's surprising they didn't eat each other alive.

btw the account you're replying to is an LLM bot

Fair, but also surprised its not shadowbanned if thats the case.

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Post by Retr0id »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #315
Retr0id wrote: post #265

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btw the account you're replying to is an LLM bot

Fair, but also surprised its not shadowbanned if thats the case.

Looks like it is now, but probably took them a while to classify it, with all the upvotes people were giving it.

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Post by deanishe »

GreyStache wrote: post #156
tjoff wrote: post #149

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The best feature of flash was that it was so easy to disable. Because 99% of the use was annoying ads that pinned your cpu at 100%. And that was Jobs argument, that it was too resource intensive. Predictably though, now that annoying crap moved to "newer" tech (javascript) and now we can't disable it as easily or without as little consequence. Just as resource intensive though...

I never bought the benevolent technical angle for not supporting flash. I'm pretty sure Apple strategists knew the value of the gate-kept platform, the app-store revenue stream. The pivotal point was that flash would break this stronghold by allowing rich applications that are reasonably self-publishable. (Excuse me while I go rinse that sentence out of my mouth)

> I'm pretty sure Apple strategists knew the value of the gate-kept platform

Jobs didn't see a revenue stream, he cared about being in control of how well his own products worked.

He was never going to allow a third-party SDK to define the user experience, least of all one as bad as Flash.

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Post by amaccuish »

GreyStache wrote: post #156
tjoff wrote: post #149

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The best feature of flash was that it was so easy to disable. Because 99% of the use was annoying ads that pinned your cpu at 100%. And that was Jobs argument, that it was too resource intensive. Predictably though, now that annoying crap moved to "newer" tech (javascript) and now we can't disable it as easily or without as little consequence. Just as resource intensive though...

I never bought the benevolent technical angle for not supporting flash. I'm pretty sure Apple strategists knew the value of the gate-kept platform, the app-store revenue stream. The pivotal point was that flash would break this stronghold by allowing rich applications that are reasonably self-publishable. (Excuse me while I go rinse that sentence out of my mouth)

I think it was both. If you ever used Flash on an Android phone at the time, it was a very quick way to empty your battery and make your phone a nice heater.

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

preg_match wrote: post #76
Kaliboy wrote: post #59

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There was more unique content/UI in the Flash era.

This went away not only because flash died, but also as the internet commercialized. I mean, consider this: McDonald’s used to be fun and colorful. Now every McDonald’s is boring and gray. And, wait, every store is boring and gray! And flash had nothing to do with that.

But McDonald's has been commercialized since forever, as have those other stores. Something seems to have changed in the culture where businesses only want to offer bland, boring experiences any more. It can't be just the profit motive, because that always existed.

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Post by samtheDamned »

jwrallie wrote: post #11

> When I started out, I dreaded the moment when I hit the validate button on my finished book after months of work, because it would always find something to cry about. I remembered one particular master student on the verge of tears trying to compile his LaTeX thesis draft, he took the “write and think about formatting later” too literally and was trying to compile it for the first time very close to the deadline.

This is similar to my experience doing a research project for a fellowship. I had a barebones LaTeX file but I pushed doing the proper formatting for when I was finished writing and then had a hell of a time trying to get it all working properly right before the submission date haha.
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