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Flash was an incredible accessible animation engine. There are dozens of “webtoons” that got their start as flash animations.

• coldtea 4y ago
  It was accessible, but also insecure, and buggy. And aside from animations, it helped build the "landing page" nightmare - huge (for the download speeds of the time) pages, loading tons of assets, to do nothing. Or the even worse "flash-only website" which just showed some text and images, and had nightmarish navigation, slow download times, didn't use regular html widgets, and you couldn't copy and paste or take a bookmark of your position in it...
  • Jasper_ 4y ago
    The true neglect really started showing after Adobe bought the product. And your last paragraph could also apply to a lot of HTML5 apps, especially during the "AJAX" era. People didn't care about those things (and a lot of them still don't !) regardless of the technology used.
• yamtaddle 4y ago
  Indeed—however much it "sucked", there's literally no replacement. We've simply lost a certain kind of very-accessible creation tool for rich, animation-heavy, potentially-interactive content.
  • coldtea 4y ago
    How is Adobe Animate, for one, not a replacement? And it even exports native HTML/JS code.
    • rchaud 4y ago
      If you have a Mac, I suggest Tumult Hype, which works very similarly, and has no subscription. Exports to HTML, GIF, OAML and MP4
• klondike_klive 4y ago
  I wouldn't have a career without it, that's for sure. I made a cartoon called The Pygmy Shrew which went round the world and led to me going to Monaco to record Roger Moore!