What are its notable weaknesses and technological flaws/disadvantages? Why has it lasted so long?
>>54869830
HTML 5 was released at 28 October 2014
Whereas Flash was released at 1996, that's why Flash lasted so long because it was a available, popular and widely used web multimedia software platform back then. Youtube used it, as well as many other sites did.
The main weakness is Security, Adobe Flash Player is capable of executing malicious code.
>>54870341
HTML5/web tech still can't into smooth vector animations
>>54870488
https://codepen.io/chrisgannon/pen/QjKXXe
What technical limitations does Flash have that would make you tear your hair out as a developer?
>>54870860
Mobile devices support
>>54870860
Anything involving interacting with the page embedded in
>>54869830
Mostly it is hated because of flash advertizement. When ad companies started actively using flash banners instead of static images or gifs, the shit became super annoying - consumes a lot of data bandwidth, increase page loading times, causing over all bad internet experience.
Other than that, it's totally fine for video streaming and some browser mini-games.
>>54869830
the language in itself is not bad.
actionscript 3 has real programming features and is very flexible.
however the downfall of flash is all because of the flashplayer.
almost every week there was a new 0day exploit.
it runs really badly on most setups and for the longest time was only available as 32bit.
its shoddily programmend and crashes a lot. when it did it often took your browsers with it.
actionscript is great
flashplayer is bad
nowadays you can programm in as3 and compile to html5/js. its not nearly as optimized as programming in vanilla js though.
>>54869830
do we really have to do your homework?
>>54869830
that logo looks like a prostate stimulator
>>54869830
* It WILL leak memory, if you annoy its GC enough. That's not a bug, but a decision, according to some Adobe dev.
* Official runtimes and authoring tools are closed source and don't get proper maintenance.
But there aren't good enough tools to make proper vector animations fast enough.
>>54870688
Congrats, that's a very simple animation and it was probably a PITA to create.
>>54872992
> memory leaks
> 'it's not a bug, it's a feature'
lel
>>54873250
Adobe at its finest
>>54869830
>ITT: Mac Shilling their stuff
Flash is great.
It's pretty neat for develloping graphical stuff and if you keep your updates you don't face security issues.
Have you ever tried to devellop that kind of stuff in another product?
And HTML 5 is nowhere near as mature or fast.
>>54869830
Because it's a fucking security nightmare. There are more remote sploits for flash than for a cisco router from 2004. It should die already.
