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Enjoying a game, video, or music is different than enjoying the underlying means of delivery. Do people love Javascript and HTML5, or do they like streaming entertainment? Do gamers love Unity, or do they love playing fun games, some of which are made with Unity? I played games on every Windows from 3.1 and up (and MS-DOS before that), but I'm not pining for the days of Windows ME despite how much fun I had on that m…

You're completely (and I think intentionally) missing that flash enabled people to easily create those things... and that creativity and ease of use still hasn't been replicated (your example of Unity - doesn't come close to the ease) People loved flash for what flash was good for (creative toys) they disliked flash when certain sites started making it the core of the navigation etc. When people are nostalgic for fla…

I’m not being intentionally obtuse. I’m just not viewing a dead technology with rose colored glasses.

If you don’t like unity on account of being too powerful pick from the dozen or more easily found projects that do what flash did in the same creator friendly way. Here’s one: https://www.wickeditor.com/

Again, people didn’t love flash. They loved the content that was created. Having to deal with updating flash and all that hassle was something people tolerated to see funny animations that anyone can still make today. The concept was very cool, the execution was not.

Everything flash could do from a creative standpoint is easier and better now, with the added benefit of not being awful ux.

Re: Your ePub Is fine

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> The entire browser ecosystem started out closed source. That is completely, 100%, untrue and not remotely historically accurate. WorldWideWeb (the first web browser) was public domain. Lynx came out in 1992. Mozilla was open sourced in 1998. There was never a time when the "entire" browser ecosystem was closed source. It certainly didn't start that way. > Even JavaScript was written to interact with closed source J…

> Netscape decided to add a programming language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: And the reason for that two language approach is given in the linked source: > We aimed to provide a “glue language” for the Web designers and part time programmers who were building Web content from components such as images, plugins, and Java applets. We saw Java as the “component language” used by higher-priced…

Don't trust Wikipedia.

I've used the "glue language" phrase myself, but when I did Mocha in May 1995 for Netscape 2, it was to make an HTML-embedded scripting language that could be useful by itself. LiveConnect, by which JS could call Java and vice versa, came in 1996 for Netscape 3.

The "Java" hype dictated the marketing-sought JavaScript name, but JS was useful by itself with the DOM level 0, which I hacked in extreme conditions in the summer of 1995, well before any "merely acting as glue" role for Java applets or components. That "just glue" option came late, and ultimately failed. JS survived and in the end took over from Java and other plugins.

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