New Homestar Runner cartoon to celebrate its 25 years on this widest of world webs:
Why did we undo Flash only to reinvent it all with this HTML5 canvas JavaScript sorcery? I assumed the point was that all the multimedia/interactivity was gimmicky for web pages, as well as proprietary.
Now everything is just in the browser--including Flash emulators like Ruffle. You can even highly obfuscate code, effectively run malware (crypto miners and so on).
Bring back Flash!
>>2
Flash wasn't deprecated out of opposition to multimedia/interactivity, it was deprecated because it was proprietary, insecure, and difficult for old people to install. The plan with HTML5 from the start was to allow normal web-devs to do things that previously required Flash and work on HTML5 started long before Flash was killed.
Unfortunately, all that HTML5 interactivity fails to do the one thing Flash was great at - allowing tech illiterate retards to make interactive webpages, art, animations, and games and distribute it all in a convenient format. It used to be possible for any idiot to pirate Flash and have a nice, visually intuitive GUI for throwing together interactive animations of poorly drawn women choking on cocks, and the end result usually had a low file size and could be distributed as one file for reposting on /f/! Now that same retard would have to learn Javascript (and figure out how to integrate his code into his animation without a nice GUI to help) or abandon the joys of interactivity in favor of making a normal poorly drawn animation (far less fun).
>>2
Not only is it reinvented, it's been reinvented worse. A not insignificant portion of my work is in using Adobe's bullshit fake Flash, and it struggles like Flash never did trying to draw any image that's larger than 512x512. It's laughable.
>>3
I always took it there was some kind of cultural idea that sticking applets/whatever-the-fuck inside of a web page was against the 'point' of the web, and at some stage they decided, 'Fuck it, people want it, let's implement that as part of The Standards.'
At least the shitty games and animations were fun in their own right.