You're forced to work in other systems, too. I don't see your point. Unless you want UBI to be high enough that you needn't work?
Agreed. The pain those plugins caused will never be forgotten, even if the current solution is not a plugin but WebASM. DIE JUST DIE.
They were dying before that. Open web standards were a big thing for anyone doing front-end dev then. iphone not supporting flash was just another nail in the coffin... turned out to be a big nail.
It gave the front end developer access to the native win32 API througb COM. That means you could effectively write a native app and deliver it over the web. Powerful but also malware-prone.
You're forced to work in other systems, too. I don't see your point. Unless you want UBI to be high enough that you needn't work?
Agreed. The pain those plugins caused will never be forgotten, even if the current solution is not a plugin but WebASM. DIE JUST DIE.
They were dying before that. Open web standards were a big thing for anyone doing front-end dev then. iphone not supporting flash was just another nail in the coffin... turned out to be a big nail.
It gave the front end developer access to the native win32 API througb COM. That means you could effectively write a native app and deliver it over the web. Powerful but also malware-prone.