Comment by lpghatguy
6 days ago
Once upon a time, Flash, Java, Silverlight, ActiveX, etc. ruled the web.
I think the world is _much_ better off today, with a common language and platform. I don't think those big third party runtimes could survive in the browser in today's threat environment.
Unfortunately "common" means being what Google wants, and they abuse their market position to push whatever through (advertising support in an HTML client... what?)