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flash has been abandoned for 15 years

History would be different if Apple had bought Flash back then. It made sense: a web-based lightweight platform for making games and such on a phone.

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That is the issue... Flash was not LIGHTWEIGHT! It was an obese messed that Adobe "NEVER" managed to control. Sure the files you pass from server to client was "somewhat" light weight but the player was breathing heavier than a fat man leaning over the buffet table!

yeah apparently javascript or html5 video isnt lightweight either though. I 'd prefer the timeline in which the flash ECMAscript and animation model had become standard in the browser.

Not sure what you are talking about. JS and HTML Video is as lightweight as you can get. The 3 main browsers just keep optimizing performance with JS on every release. If you need to compare Flash to something then compare it to Java Web Applets

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