They actively tried to enshittify the platform by charging a revshare to game developers for using cross-compiled code with Stage3D. >Adobe let Flash languish after the purchase of Macromedia. Maybe WASM deployables will fill the gap. We could have started to iteratively polish it into a standard. I wish Adobe had donated it all (editor and runtime) to the w3c as open source.

If you discount the awful splash pages it enabled, the work being done in Flash was leagues above the web games you see today. Microsoft hated Flash because of the security flaws and how deeply their browser integrated into the host OS.Ĭreators, however, used it to make the best experiences. (In fact, one of my favorite analogies for Flash is to imagine if YouTube was interactive - that was Flash.)Īpple hated Flash as it undermined their complete control over their device (no runtimes). Flash also competed with YouTube for eyeballs. Google hated Flash since they couldn't index it and use it for making money. Nothing has ever been as easy to use, easy to deploy, comprehensive in capability, and complete in functionality.Īdobe let Flash languish after the purchase of Macromedia. Moreover, we lost the best authorship tool of its kind. We lost incredible capabilities when Adobe abandoned it and Apple signed its death warrant.

Flash was an amazing platform and we should not forget it.

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