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It's rare to find people complaining about moving from a proprietary Adobe technology to an open standard.
by tonyedgecombe 4d ago
It's rare to find people complaining about moving from a proprietary Adobe technology to an open standard.
- philipallstar 3d agoIt's taken Javascript ten years or more to get to the point Flash was at, and the tooling is still nowhere near as good. Open standard is not the only thing that makes the web happier, and it's not even the main thing. Playing Flash games on Newgrounds in 2005 was amazing, and arguably 2025 has it worse.
- oefrha 3d agoFlash => HTML5 was a travesty for creative little games on the web. It never recovered. Even today the authoring tools are crap for the average person with an idea, if you ignore AI vibe coding for a minute, which overcomes the tooling deficiency by being experts at the difficult tooling. (But I guess Flash => HTML5 was only a part of it, the rise of IAP everything, which was also pioneered/popularized by Apple, may have played an equal or larger role in the demise of that game genre.)
- andai 3d agoI agree the authoring tools were excellent. I think it goes beyond Flash though. I have this book from 2008 on Flash web designs and they're so cool, there's so much detail and love put into them. Then they all became flat and soulless. Same with skeumorphism. I bought yesterday two iPhone 4's, one with the original iOS and one that had been "upgraded" to the flat laggy version with all the detail, all the love, all the joy sucked out of it. The exact same thing happened across the entire digital landscape, more or less simultaneously.
- andai 3d agoI've used GIMP every day for 20 years and I'll still gladly say it's a piece of crap compared to Photoshop. I don't think that's exactly a niche position on my part ;)