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Flash had numerous issues. The processing power available (especially on a PSP) is more than enough to be “good”, the problem with flash _performance_ is the power usage while achieving that perf. Even on laptops flash was a significant battery life drain whenever it was running, having it on all websites would kill battery life while browsing on a phone.



Yeah it did. I'm just sad that it took down ActionScript with it. IMO this is the language Javascript should have been.


ActionScript was a big influence on ECMAScript 4 until it was abandoned and scaled back for ECMAScript 5 “Harmony”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#4...




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