Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can’t do with today’s web?

• Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native

  8 33,718 9.2 Java

  Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native

  

  Lottie[1], an Adobe After Effects plugin, fills a gap in vector animation authoring and is quite widely used (primarily in mobile applications but also works on the web, Discord for example supports them for stickers).

  It's a pity SVG animation authoring tools never eventuated since it's an underutilized native format.

  [1] (ignore the GIF-converted examples, the originals are lightweight and vector-based) https://airbnb.io/lottie/

• ruffle

  138 11,817 9.9 Rust

  A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

  

  I got some Flash applications[0] working in the Pro version of my remote, isolated iframe-embeddable browser[1] using Ruffle[2]. Basically I use CRDP to run Ruffle on pages that need it (sort of like a Chrome extension content script). Ruffle itself uses wasm and is quite fast. It's cool seeing the audio and video work and playing those old games.

  [0]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Test-SWFs

  [1]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox#bb-pro-vs-regular-...

  [2]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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  Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.

  

• BrowserBox

  10 1,833 8.1 JavaScript

  📷 BrowserBox - Remote isolated browser API for security, automation visibility and interactivity. Run on our cloud, or bring your own. Full scope double reverse web proxy with multi-tab, mobile-ready browser UI frontend. Plus co-browsing, advanced adaptive streaming, secure document viewing and more! But only in the Pro version. Get BB today! Secure your document needs and internet, today!

  

  I got some Flash applications[0] working in the Pro version of my remote, isolated iframe-embeddable browser[1] using Ruffle[2]. Basically I use CRDP to run Ruffle on pages that need it (sort of like a Chrome extension content script). Ruffle itself uses wasm and is quite fast. It's cool seeing the audio and video work and playing those old games.

  [0]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Test-SWFs

  [1]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox#bb-pro-vs-regular-...

  [2]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

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