top | item 37995699 (no title) jplona | 2 years ago I suppose Flash could be considered a notable exception there. discuss order hn newest thraxil|2 years ago Flash was proprietary. Open standards and formats are what we've always kind of expected would keep working. hannob|2 years ago Yeah, and java applets + some more tech enabled by plugins. But I guess we always considered the "plugin-web" to be "different" in that regard. stanac|2 years ago IIRC flash was a plugin but it was integrated into chrome install. I don't remember if it was part of FF default install or not, but I can guess it wasn't.
thraxil|2 years ago Flash was proprietary. Open standards and formats are what we've always kind of expected would keep working.
hannob|2 years ago Yeah, and java applets + some more tech enabled by plugins. But I guess we always considered the "plugin-web" to be "different" in that regard.
stanac|2 years ago IIRC flash was a plugin but it was integrated into chrome install. I don't remember if it was part of FF default install or not, but I can guess it wasn't.
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