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>This is flash. You can't do anything in it that fills like the web - no copy paste

Whereas you would have that in a Canvas or OpenGL equivalent web game?

>right clicking causes things to happen.

That's already the case for tons of websites, there's support for that in web standards.

>There's a reason why flash died out, and it's not only apple.

Yes. It was controlled by a single company, IDEs were paid for, it was more marketed to designer types, and it was frequently slow and used for apps and annoying stuff.

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> Whereas you would have that in a Canvas or OpenGL equivalent web game?

Yes, you would, at least for some parts. Web games often combine the canvas showing the "game world" with DOM showing some UI elements - on which all the usual affordances work.

> That's already the case for tons of websites, there's support for that in web standards.

Fortunately most sites don't bother. The defaults matter.

>Yes, you would, at least for some parts. Web games often combine the canvas showing the "game world" with DOM showing some UI elements - on which all the usual affordances work.

Only if they care, most don't. In this case, they also don't. It's still trivial to do it, even in Flutter.

Last I checked, web games pretty much died with Flash. Sure, it coincided with mobile games soaring, but I doubt web games would've become this scarce without Flash dying as well.

Scarce? There are plenty of them available.

Web games died? They are stronger than ever, and a huge multi-billion market...

> It was controlled by a single company, IDEs were paid for, it was more marketed to designer types, and it was frequently slow and used for apps and annoying stuff.

So aside from the IDE cost and marketing, there's no difference.

It was also a massive vector for security vulnerabilities.

Perhaps you've missed the "controlled by a single company", made for designer types (by marketing to I don't just mean how it was promoted), slow, and used for ads and annoying stuff like flash screens and such.

Are you saying that web standards are not controlled by a single company? That is not how I interpret the behavior of the relevant standards bodies of the past decade.

More importantly: Flash was closed source.

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