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qingcharles 4 hours ago

Flash was great. Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS?

I remember trying to produce a Flash renderer in C# when we wrote DudeFactory to render out the characters after you used the Flash app to put all their clothes and accessories on. I think we cheated in the end and pre-rendered large PNGs of them all and used .NET to just layer them all with instructions sent from Flash.

https://dudefactory.com/

pjmlp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

2D and 3D games, with good developer and debugging tools.

troupo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS?

This sounds like a "is there anything you can do in C++ or Javascript that you couldn't do in Brainfuck?".

Flash was a complete authoring environment. Yes, you can replicste the output in JS+CSS (or more likely JS+Canvas/WebGL/WebGPU), but at what cost and with how much effort?