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Flash will not be supported in any of the large browsers after December, limiting access to people who go out of their way to use both a fork that preserves NPA
by spijdar 6y ago
Flash will not be supported in any of the large browsers after December, limiting access to people who go out of their way to use both a fork that preserves NPAPI or whatever Chromium uses and manually install some version of Flash.
I'm not aware of any search engines that index arbitrary files that the browser or some ubiquitous media viewer can't open. The most annoying I can think of is the occasional powerpoint files I've run across on google, and at least those are usually cached in a browser-friendly format.
It'd be like indexing Adobe CS project files, and requiring a subscription to Adobe to open the search result.
- tomc1985 6y agoThere is a binary, Windows-native SWF player that still works 100% perfectly on Win 10. There is also one for OSX but with Apple's hatred for backwards compatibility I have no idea whether it still works or not It's a shame that Adobe has all but buried it, but it does work. Honestly its the only good way to view downloaded flash content nowadays, because it preserves all the hyperlinks and other nonlinearity that is lost on conversion to a video file. Strongbad emails, for example, have tons of hidden content activated by clicking hotspots during playback. (You can even hunt for them by hitting Tab)
- navanchauhan 6y agoFor macOS iSwiff ( https://echoone.com/iswiff/ https://echoone.com/iswiff/ ). Should hopefully work until the end of time