Some of you might remember when a 3mb flash animation could pack in some 5 minutes of animation, with the more advanced ones even having chapter/scene selectors, which could also include clickable easter eggs and other kinds of interactions during the scenes.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devOP
    18·
    18 hours ago

    My nostalgic sigh is about animations that became rasterized videos, thus losing any chance at being interactive or hiding easter eggs.

    I am glad we no longer have sites made in pure flash, but now we have different stupid shit that also blocks back/forward navigation, fucks up scroll bars, hogs the CPU and crashes the browser for no good reason.

    • CovfefeKills@lemmy.world
      1·
      42 minutes ago

      You aren’t appealing much inter-intra-frame compressions are famous with conspiracy theories doubt you can keep up with that shit if you are harping on 3mb in 2025

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      18 hours ago

      Those last things you listed were all true of Flash too:

      1. Back forward buttons, working in a flash site?
      2. Scroll bars? Same thing.
      3. CPU usage? Same thing. (See: phone performance.)
      4. Crashes? It was the number one cause of crashes as reported by Apple when looking at their Safari crash logs. This was true of many plugins of that style from back in the day (being unstable).
      • I Cast Fist@programming.devOP
        12·
        17 hours ago

        I know, which is why I mentioned them. We got rid of flash, but people were so fucking nostalgic for the worst parts that they put it all back into their JS frameworks