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That DΔrn Pooka :verified_think: (theququ@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:23 JST That DΔrn Pooka :verified_think:
Flash plugin was an unstable and insecure piece of sh*t, but it was impressive in that it did let you run vector animation synced perfectly with audio on a computer that has too low hardware specs to even run an HTML5-capable browser at all. You don't know what you have until it's gone. -
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⛧Airgetlam⛧ (alex@wreck.rocks)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:18 JST ⛧Airgetlam⛧
@coolboymew @Moon @TheQuQu @mint @pawlicker Only poor people care about things like functionality, you pay the premium so all your hipster friends can see that you bought worthless overpriced product. -
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Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:19 JST Sexy Moon
@coolboymew @TheQuQu @mint @pawlicker no webm -
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cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:19 JST cool_boy_mew
@Moon @TheQuQu @mint @pawlicker that's fucking evil. Imagine paying premium and you don't even have basic file type support in your browser -
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cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:20 JST cool_boy_mew
@pawlicker @mint @TheQuQu that I didn't know
What was cool was that Flash devs discovered the code to make the Wii remote buttons works in Flash, so for a while you had flash games made for the Wii -
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cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:20 JST cool_boy_mew
@pawlicker @TheQuQu @mint Also Apple is fucking evil
Had no support for OGGs. I'm not sure about webm -
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cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:21 JST cool_boy_mew
@pawlicker @mint @TheQuQu the freaking Wii Opera browser had Flash -
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pawlicker (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:21 JST pawlicker
The PSP and PS3 as well. -
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pawlicker (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:22 JST pawlicker
It was Apple who pushed the hardest. Google actually for a while had Flash on Android.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
Before flash went away in Android and Adobe decided to kill it instead of making it FOSS or some shit because Adobe is a shit company too, memes like this weren't uncommon to mock iToddlers. -
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(mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 05:51:23 JST
@TheQuQu The main reason Flash died is because of FUD campaign paid by Google who felt their web standarts monopoly threatened. In conversation permalink
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