[conspire] (forw) Re: [skeptic] Adobe Flash Player is no more

[Nick Moffitt]

On 10Jan2021 11:48pm (-0800), Rick Moen wrote:
> It's all my wife Deirdre's fault (well, more than most people).  She was
> the bug screener at Apple for all bug reports about the Safari Web
> browser, and built a dossier of data about an incredibly high percentage
> of supposed Safari bugs having been caused by Adobe's ridiculously
> defective Flash interpreter taking down the entire browser.  This case
> information went straight to Steve Jobs's desk, and was instrumental in
> his drafting of his famous 'Thoughts on Flash' letter, which in turn 
> basically doomed the technology -- along with development of better
> alternatives via HTML5/Javascript.
> 
> So, Deirdre killed it.  Yay!

Thank you for your service.