Comment by GuB-42
1 day ago
Performance was way better than what we have now with modern web stacks, we just have more powerful computers.
I agree on security and bugs, but bugs can be fixed. It just shows neglect by Adobe, which was, I think, the real problem. I think that if Adobe seriously wanted to, it could have been a web standard.
Lots of people say performance was good, but that seems to be through the nostalgic lens of a handful of cool games.
Those did sometimes run really great, but most implementations were indeed very slow.
I remember vividly because it was part of my job back then to help with web performance and when we measured page speed and user interface responsiveness flash was almost always the worst.
Right. But that doesn't mean the performance of Flash was bad for what it was doing. Or that it was worse than the performance of doing the same thing in modern HTML+CSS now.
The default, and by far the most common, output from Flash had significantly slower click-to-response and for network latency and for rendering than HTML+CSS is today.
You remembering a few optimised instances does not change the reality that Flash was bad.
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