Breaking the Web would prevent us from browsing Geocities and the Space Jam website like it’s 1996. On the other hand, not breaking the Web keeps users, web developers, browser vendors, and standards bodies happy. The choice is easy to make.https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/975728763785723904 …
With the exception of Chrome, Flash was never built-in to browsers — it was a plugin. As such, developers could never really rely on it. It’s a different story with features that are shipping in browsers. We still try to remove bad ones, though: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate#removing-apis …
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Deprecating Flash is similar in that way. It took years until the Web was usable without it. Only then could we declare the Death of Flash™.
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Maybe deprecating stuff in JS wouldn't be a bad thing as well, that way the language could get cleaned up overtime and mistakes that were made in the past could be rectified, it wouldn't be an easy process but I think it would help the language a lot in the long run
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