I don't think the issue is lack of features, because audio context and canvas2d are pretty good for making things shiny and nice. The issue is pretty much the rest of the DOM that has quirks everywhere if you want to use it that way. CSS3D as a scene graph is also kind of half baked, and not really integrated well with animations, and well, also too painful when it comes to scheduling and timing and chaining any transition.
SVG animations are also only half-ass implemented among browsers, so that's not really a reliable alternative.
What I liked about the Macromedia suite was the integration cross-IDE, where dreamweaver worked really great together with Flash and vice versa, and where flash was able to load HTML content, just in a more animated manner.
I mean, this was when XHR and AJAX was the "modern" thing in web browsers. Adobe could have dominated the mobile market if they would have decided to make it an open standard. Flash was really a decade ahead of its time.
cookiengineer|1 month ago
I don't think the issue is lack of features, because audio context and canvas2d are pretty good for making things shiny and nice. The issue is pretty much the rest of the DOM that has quirks everywhere if you want to use it that way. CSS3D as a scene graph is also kind of half baked, and not really integrated well with animations, and well, also too painful when it comes to scheduling and timing and chaining any transition.
SVG animations are also only half-ass implemented among browsers, so that's not really a reliable alternative.
What I liked about the Macromedia suite was the integration cross-IDE, where dreamweaver worked really great together with Flash and vice versa, and where flash was able to load HTML content, just in a more animated manner.
I mean, this was when XHR and AJAX was the "modern" thing in web browsers. Adobe could have dominated the mobile market if they would have decided to make it an open standard. Flash was really a decade ahead of its time.
efortis|1 month ago
People were more creative, and Flash had great UI/UX.
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More 2009 flash websites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85UL3HhNq6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoUnzmaAV08