> Websites are still inferior to Flash of the early 2000s. It's taken decades and they can only mimic a fraction of its power.

Is this a troll? What could an application do with Flash in 2005 that we can't do with a modern web application today (excluding the obvious answer of runtime vulnerabilities that allowed apps to escape the sandbox)?

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fdgfikgfv 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Flash had its problems but as a user, it looked sharper and smoother than even current websites. And its editor gave non-tech users ability to create amazing animations, interfaces, and even games.

	▲	eichin 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		wasn't some of that smoothness because it ran at a 100hz tick without any way of adapting it (and still running existing code)? That was the complaint I kept hearing from people attempting to make flash on phones viable (this led to ludicrous battery consumption)
	▲	dredmorbius 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Image-wise, SVGA + JS probably gets you the clarity. Standard gif / image animations not so much, if that's what you're referencing. This isn't my baliwick, so I've absolutely nothing to say about the ease with which these options can be created.

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ricardonunez 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

what’s he is referring is the editor and the easy way of drawing things, still agree we can do things today but a easy to draw editor like that is missing. I was a fan of flash and fireworks.

	▲	radley an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The editor was a scripted timeline, similar to a video or animation timeline. It was fantastic for creatives, but counterintuitive for programmers, so most devs hated it.

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Kaliboy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	preg_match 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.