alt Hacker NewsIf only there was a widely used vector format that had script support and also decades of work on maintaining a battle-tested security layer around it with regular updates on a faster release cycle than your browser. That'd be crazy. Sure would suck if we killed it because we didn't want to bother maintaining it anymore.
(Yes I'm still salty about Flash.)
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lambdaone • last Thursday at 8:07 PM
SVG without <script> would do just fine.
ajross • last Thursday at 8:56 PM
Uh... Flash was a genuine firehose of security flaws. I mean, yeah, they patched them. So "battle tested security layer" isn't wrong in a technical sense. But, yikes, no.
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> because we didn't want to bother maintaining it anymore
That wasn't the only reason. Flash was also proprietary, and opaque, and single-vendor, among many other problems with it.