Flash-to-Silverlight playbook: AI may force a rewrite of software defaults
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-24
jdpressman recalls how 2000s browser plugins like Flash, Java applets and Silverlight were deemed structurally insecure and ripped out entirely. He suggests a similar period may be coming where we reevaluate taken-for-granted layers: the HTML/CSS/JavaScript stack, apps supporting every legacy media format, and the desktop security model where one app can steal all data.
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