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.
The absurd amount of security issues flash has lead to its demise.
Did it really though? Ruffle is a reimplantation of Flash in Rust, and is available as a browser extension. Anything short of malicious swf files will play. So it seems that any “security issues” were clearly mitigatable.
They were, but it was up to Adobe to fix them, which they didn’t
Not true. It was not about that.
Then what was it?
It was proprietary, apple hated it because it wanted to sell apps. And Google followed that model.
We wish the security issues were what killed flash, but it had more than twenty years of security issues failing to kill flash. Flash died because it was replaced by newer technology.