The collective hate and killing of flash by the tech community was a terrible thing and has made the internet so much less fun.
5 years ago, everyone was arguing about how flash was the most insecure piece of garbage and caused all the security problems
fastforward to today and the same problems pretty much exist, but flash is fairly rare.
to this we put forth, maybe it WASN'T flash at fault here.
we're not saying that the security vulnerabilities didn't exist, they did, they were bad, but it was never the only factor.
The only thing that we've seen the gradual loss of flash is, also, the gradual loss of fan animation, furry animation, ete, open as an option for so many young people to have as their outlet.
Trying to do the same thing today is so much harder than it was then, and it's only been getting worse.
maybe someday, the tools for doing things with WebGL, Canvas, etc will evolve to be as good as flash was, maybe.
but at the moment, they are worse, don't stay working for nearly as long, and require so much more to just start up and learn.
lets stop pretending that Javascript is somehow not equally as dangerous as flash, because it is.
we've seen that over and over again to the point that those of us that are more security conscious literally use tools that prevent Javascript running on our systems without our permission.
@rachel
With all the enhanced abilities that JS is getting, I'd argue that now it's more dangerous than Flash ever was.
