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raincole 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

If JavaScript hadn't been a thing, Flash and JavaApplet would have been far more popular than they were and I really don't appreciate that timeline.

hnlmorg 5 months ago [–]

JavaScript didn’t kill Flash a Java. The web becoming cross platform did.

People started browsing on a plethora of devices from the Dreamcast to PDAs. And then Steve Jobs came a long and doubled down on the shift in accessibility. His stance on Flash was probably the only thing I agreed with him on too.

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