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peter123
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Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down
there were some bad decisions, chief among which was the decision to NOT to use flash as the platform. Kinda the same mistake they made with the original Google Video.
axod
on Nov 20, 2008
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Surely these days they could pretty much have used javascript, with canvas etc. No flash==even bigger win.
palish
on Nov 20, 2008
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Why?
axod
on Nov 20, 2008
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Because the new crop of internet devices don't have flash?
teej
on Nov 20, 2008
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And they somehow support Canvas?
blasdel
on Nov 21, 2008
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Yes. WebKit
invented
<canvas>.
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