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> We really need a better medium than the current WWW for this kind of archival, because the researchers are going to retire or die, and then they will probably
by core-questions 6y ago
> We really need a better medium than the current WWW for this kind of archival, because the researchers are going to retire or die, and then they will probably stop updating their pages, which will then apparently become inaccessible with modern browsers.
I predict at some point we'll end up with a project that does Flash-on-WASM to keep Flash usable.
https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with-webassembly-done-right-eb6838b7e36f https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with...
- kragen 6y agoThat's technically feasible, but note the number of fragile workarounds for political problems in that post: they download the Flash binary from, presumably, Adobe at startup, depend on a Chrome extension which Google will kill whenever they feel like it, and also depend on the as-yet-unreleased and possibly proprietary "CheerpX" 386 emulator for wasm. If Apple — which intentionally dropped support for Flash and browser extensions when it shipped the iPhone, a decision it's stuck to ever since — doesn't want to support it, it's not gonna happen in their walled-garden Cockaigne.
- core-questions 6y agoIt's time to simply ignore those political problems and just straight up pirate the Flash binary. Fuck Adobe, who gives a shit? Why should we have to work any harder than strictly necessary to do this? If Adobe gave a fuck they'd release the Flash Player under the MIT license and just fuck along back to making expensive and annoying changes to apps that were finished their natural development fifteen years ago.