But for every 2advanced studios there were tens of thousands of people not using Flash as their entire site.
If people really wanted a no constraints platform to build any UI they want with a blank slate then web development as we know it today would be a completely different environment.
Instead, 20 years later, we're still trucking along with HTML as being the primary focus, and everything else can be loaded as needed.
You can build some pretty amazing things today with a combination of HTML, CSS, JS, fonts and websockets. But at the same time, if you don't need an application and just want to serve a HN style site, you can render HTML with a bit of CSS and everything works well. To me, that's one hell of a success story.
If people really wanted a no constraints platform to build any UI they want with a blank slate then web development as we know it today would be a completely different environment.
Instead, 20 years later, we're still trucking along with HTML as being the primary focus, and everything else can be loaded as needed.
You can build some pretty amazing things today with a combination of HTML, CSS, JS, fonts and websockets. But at the same time, if you don't need an application and just want to serve a HN style site, you can render HTML with a bit of CSS and everything works well. To me, that's one hell of a success story.