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The "try it now" button returns "Oh Noes! Scratch project cannot display." (because Flash), and the "Offline Editor" (in small print at the bottom of the page)
by tl 11y ago
The "try it now" button returns "Oh Noes! Scratch project cannot display." (because Flash), and the "Offline Editor" (in small print at the bottom of the page) appears to be based on Adobe Air.
When was Scratch changed to require Adobe products? I do not recall this being a thing in the past when Scratch was "just" a Smalltalk image.
- davidgerard 11y agoThey're in a maintenance window. The website uses Flash, the download uses Adobe Air.
- valine 11y agoIt was a couple years ago. I was never a fan of the transition, but I must say scratch projects ran considerablly faster with flash player.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWell, the client was "just" a Squeak image, yes, but the web player was Java. As much as I hate Flash, it's certainly better than Java as far as user experience goes.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoIf you're looking for something Scratch-like that doesn't require plugins, have a look at Snap! It's just HTML and JavaScript. http://snap.berkeley.edu/ http://snap.berkeley.edu/ I'd describe it as more Scheme-like than Smalltalk-like in flavor, which isn't too surprising since well-known Scheme education guru Brian Harvey is involved.