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Adobe Flash player (closed SWF format) death takes toll also with uncountable number of human artistic creations, games etc. I wonder if there is some way to pr

Adobe Flash player (closed SWF format) death takes toll also with uncountable number of human artistic creations, games etc. I wonder if there is some way to preserve that relic of 2000s.

icebraining 8y ago
Seems like there are a few people still working on Shumway, the flash engine written in JavaScript.
- theandrewbailey 8y ago
  I doubt anyone is working on Shumway. Its in the Firefox graveyard. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Firefox%20Graveyard https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=...
  - icebraining 8y ago
    From Mozilla yes, but there was some activity by others this year: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/pull/2442 https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/pull/2442
MaxBarraclough 8y ago
> I wonder if there is some way to preserve that relic of 2000s. Flash is fading from mainstream use on the web (thankfully), but not hard to run Flash today if you want to.
RandallBrown 8y ago
Seems like virtual machines will be able to run flash for a long long time.