And HTML5. On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:46 PM Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bill Horne wrote: > > On 9/21/2019 10:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > And, I know that Flash's EOL is the end of next year, and good > riddance. > > > > > > I've never understood what Flash does or is supposed to do: what is it > for? > > It's a language plus IDE plus runtime environment that offers easy > interactive programs. There was a runtime player available for > most browsers. > > People used to write games and video players in it. > > Problems: closed source, no open protocols, not particularly > good at adapting to different screen sizes and shapes. And > the security story was non-existent. > > It's been effectively replaced by JavaScript, which doesn't have > any of those problems, but is less user-friendly. > > -dsr- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Treasurer, Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
