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They still have time. There's nothing stopping them from doing this. It would certainly help archival efforts and benefit people who do animations.
by rocky1138 9y ago
They still have time. There's nothing stopping them from doing this. It would certainly help archival efforts and benefit people who do animations.
- sushisource 9y agoNot much money in it, though.
- gameshot911 9y agoVs all the cash in EOLing it? Unless the idea is to push people to buy a newer product?
- toyg 9y agoA company like Adobe, constantly struggling with accusations of greed and carelessness, should consider this as a PR exercise and budget accordingly. My guess is that they won't do it because there might be proprietary stuff they don't own, in the codebase. Macromedia wasn't that huge a company, I wouldn't be surprised to learn they embedded 3rd party components here or there. At that point, untangling legals might become very hard.
- tracker1 9y agoI wish they'd just come up with Flash X (sub X for whatever), where the tooling was flash in a flash interface, and geared towards react in a flex-like (flashbuilder) interface. Where the output was a directory with assets that could run directly in a browser/iframe, and svg for vector assets.