When did Flash become a "Professional" piece of software? Who decided this?
The people who hate Flash are obviously not the ones who use Flash, and the ones who use Flash know that there is still no replacement that comes close...
Flash is still alive ? Flash is dying, a slow death ...Please, Please stop trolling people like this. Silly comments like these lead to excessive arguments on these forums. On a site where people share opinions no one owes you or anyone else an apology.
FYI if you read the story, FLASH, is still alive. Once Adobe finally drops it, for good, and not rebrands it, enjoy the victory dance.
I did not say that you could not create beautiful art with Flash. What I was implying is that the software has always been super buggy, and super bloated and a huge security hole. There are other tools that can be used to create beautiful art and many of them do not have all the issues that come with Flash.Incredibly talented people, like the folks at Amanita Design, have created many beautiful pieces of art with Flash. That simply is testimony to the fact that the tool cannot be blamed when amateurs and cretins fail to put it to proper use.
Ummm....Flash lived longer than Steve Jobs did.
Flash was around for more than 56 years?
Since 2003 when Macromedia released Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004 Professional.
I see the usual responses have already bene posted. There is a huge difference between the program Flash and the Adobe Flash Player Plugin.
That was the golden era of Flash. I loved MX 2004. It was easy to use and, as an educator, easy to teach. The interface was intuitive and the exported projects worked beautifully. Then Adobe screwed it up. It became a confusing, complicated mess. Exported files were glitchy, and some versions didn't even function at all. That's when I began praying for someone else to create a new multimedia authoring tool that could do what Flash was supposed to do, but in a more intuitive way. I found it surprising that there were so few other usable authoring tools on the market. Thankfully, Hype was released a few years ago and that's been a huge help for teaching interactivity. It too isn't perfect, but I'm glad there are finally some alternatives.
I used to make whole websites in flash and do crazy stuff when most sites only had images, text, tables, and links. I loved flash for it's arty endless possibilities. While great it didn't search well, crashed and was very hard to change anything once you got into animation unless you wanted to code all movements. It was great in it's time but it's now that we have to move on.Good to see flash go.
Flash was always a buggy mess. Problem is, what many people seem to fail to remember was that it started the whole interactive 'imagery' online idea that got us out of the "web 1.0" days of static vertical walls of text.
Flash was around doing the things it was doing long before HTML5 became a standard. It pioneered the modern web. Was it big, bloated, buggy? Yes. But it for a long while was all that was available.
however, its time is long over.
So how many different pieces of software do you use? I'm all for paying for software since I write it for a living, but let's recognize that you probably use more than 100 distinct pieces of software throughout the year. Are you ready to pay $600 for each, or do you think maybe the quality of what you receive when you use them should be taken into consideration?
I was going to go with "Ha! I will spit on your grave!", but I suppose R.I.P. is more diplomatic.R.I.P.
Maybe, but I'm skeptical that's actually the case, and the last couple of quarters doesn't point to you being correct. If you've basically run out of things that are going to get anyone other than "I buy every version no matter what" professionals to upgrade regularly--which Adobe certainly has--it makes a lot more financial sense to trap people in an endless contract than to try and develop enough features to force upgrades.Adobe's CC platform is ridiculous. If they want greater sales, sell the software as a final sale or package that doesn't need monthly extortion.
Actually not necessarily. They are, apparently at least, telling websites to stop using the damned thing entirely. They're just keeping the production end of it around for actual animators, which makes sense because that's the only thing Flash was actually useful for.Just like "Comcast" To "XFinity" - Its still the same ole garbage.
Yup, recently spotted in a car wash in Encino, as well as a movie theatre in Los Alamos.Steve lives!
Adobe in damage control ....
Flash is basically associated with malware, so a smart move to rebrand it. And a smarter move is to jump ship to HTML5.
I'd like to see people bashing Apple a couple years ago about abandoning Flash in favor of HTML5 to apologize now ... but I'm sure they won't.
Adobe is an amazing company that makes amazing software. Apple and Adobe together helped to create desktop publishing. Apple licensed PostScript from Adobe for the first LaserWriter. All of the big tech companies that have survived since the 70s and 80s do amazing work, especially one that has survived on the strength of its software. To cast a wide brush against Adobe based on Flash's shortcomings in its late years is to miss the big picture of what they've done for print, photography, video, and the web.
Steve was right. He should be proud to see this.