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Flash is a blackbox, and is a completely closed environment, and it's only software, there is little hardware relation. So no. Even today, windows is able to s

by jokoon 6y ago

Flash is a blackbox, and is a completely closed environment, and it's only software, there is little hardware relation. So no. Even today, windows is able to survive because of hardware. Flash could have gained from opening their format and making it a little more standard. I'm really happy that it's dead.

pan69 6y ago
Although the Flash authoring and Flash Player software have always been closed source, Macromedia, and later Adobe, have for a long time opened various formats used in the Flash ecosystem. Some examples: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/swf-file-format-spec.pdf https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/swf-fil... https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/amf-file-format-spec.pdf https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/amf-fil... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_(software)