https://ruffle.rs/ seems to be the way people will keep the content alive, and it makes the stuff work on phones now too.
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Adobe Officially Ends Flash Support, Recommends Uninstalling Immediately
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Despite the current mob of indignant port adherents, in 10 years most people are going to think that it was always obvious that the evolution of smartphones was leading to a portless design.
Anybody who has .swf file that they really need to run can use https://ruffle.rs/
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Yes look at the half dozen HML5 games that you can play for free online!
Flash should be remembered by all PC users as a monumental step in showing us what web browsers should be capable of in the 2000s.
It should be remembered by Mac users as Apple not wanting them enjoy the , then best, the web had to offer in those days as it has no vested interest in making the plug-in anything but buggy as hell.
Remember that Flash allowed developers to write once and deploy everywhere in 2007, truly ubiquitous. This made it very cheap but was ultimately its downfall as newbies with weak skills could easily deploy badly written apps.
Indeed there are still many things that HTML cannot do easily. Well done for all you inspired Flash, Sleep well.
It should be remembered by Mac users as Apple not wanting them enjoy the , then best, the web had to offer in those days as it has no vested interest in making the plug-in anything but buggy as hell.
Remember that Flash allowed developers to write once and deploy everywhere in 2007, truly ubiquitous. This made it very cheap but was ultimately its downfall as newbies with weak skills could easily deploy badly written apps.
Indeed there are still many things that HTML cannot do easily. Well done for all you inspired Flash, Sleep well.
Yeah, you know something is up with a product when literally for years Adobe has provided conversion support from their own product to HTML 5.
People keep saying that companies will still use Flash; there’s no alternative/it’s too hard to use the alternative. I haven’t tried them, but I remember reading a while ago that Adobe’s Flash authoring tools could simply compile to HTML 5 (and presumably some JS) instead - is that wrong?
Ninjad!
The quasi-government agency known as Adobe will have to tweak the settings on its other data collection apps, but outside of that the loss of Flash is no big deal for them.
Crap software vs useful charging, syncing and diagnostic port. Apples and oranges.
But sure, Apple is always right.
Maybe take better care of your cables? I have yet to replace any of mine. I’m still using the cord from my iPhone 7 that I got on launch day for my iPhone 12 Pro.
More like a 2012 version of the iPod dock connector- but I agree - had the industry pulled USB-c out of their pockets earlier, this might have ended differently.
Does this mean there won't be an M1 native version?
Check the headline again, it’s rather straight forward.
Some will. But lightning is already heavily disliked for being proprietary.
HTML5 can do a lot of that, if programmers want to learn how to implement it. But because HTML5 is an open standard, there can be cross-compatibility challenges. When Google decided to fork Webkit with Chrome, that created some problems. But generally HTML5 has proved to be pretty robust. When I taught game design, my classes used Hype to create some really interesting 2D games in HTML5. After years of teaching Flash, I don't miss it at all. Its best years were with Macromedia. Adobe IMO really screwed it up.
WebGL/WebGPU and the various web game engines that use them would like to have a word with you.
Web Games were killed by the App Stores, I think. It wasn’t Flash’s downfall, because vastly better alternatives exist within HTML 5, meaning zero plugins are required.
Wasn't Silverlight necessary for Netflix in the past?Hey man, respect your elders.
DivX is a huge part of h.264; without DivX, none of any modern video encoding would be possible.
RealVideo was a PITA, but so was everything back then. They were WAY ahead of their time, and pretty much paved the way for modern interactive video content.
Silverlight .. idk never used it.
Flash, well, flash. It basically made web apps before there was even such a thing. Hugely innovative, basically facilitated the interactive apps and web we know today. But Adobe kept it around for way too long. Should have been obsoleted 10 years ago when Jobs wrote that letter.
I hated RealPlayer with a passion! It never worked well on the Mac. And DivX was alright but it was a pain keeping the codec up to date.
Hahahaha I had nearly forgotten RealPlayer. It was such a terrible app but there was always that random guy who would use RealPlayer files so you had to keep it installed for those rare cases. Good times.
I went to one a few weeks ago. I could not believe it was still set up to use Flash. I just laughed at them and moved on.
There were few good alternatives when introduced that met the needed specs. It’s fine but needs to be replaced by the USBC and it’s garbage tongue connector. It had a good run.
There were plenty of people for whom Flash was their first development environment, so it's worth pouring one out.
But the writing was on the wall even before the writing was in the Apple ad -- it was a desktop environment that couldn't make the leap to mobile.
But the writing was on the wall even before the writing was in the Apple ad -- it was a desktop environment that couldn't make the leap to mobile.
Internet Archive has, as usual, done the right thing and archived as much flash content as they can in a HTML5 format:
http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/
http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/