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The Flash authoring system never went away: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
by robertoandred 3y ago
The Flash authoring system never went away: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoYes, but the HTML50-output options leave a lot to be desired - it's not as simple as taking an existing multi-megabyte *.fla file from 2004, opening it in Animate CC and going File > Export - there's a whole bunch of incompatibility and breaking-changes involved, some are listed here: https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/creating-publishing-html5-canvas-document.html https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/creating-publishing-ht... What's kinda interesting to me is that Macromedia also had a Java-applet-based SWF player, which got me wondering why a Java-based version of Flash, instead of the native-code Flash, never took-off as a more secure alternative.
- Gabrys1 3y agoJava applets took forever to lunch. Maybe that's why
- alibarber 3y agoAlso the JVM didn't seem as widespread as flash player in my experience - it was something like a 40+MB download and somewhat-involved install whereas Flash player seemed to have been included in the OS or as an easy IE plugin add-on. Can't remember exactly though but this is the experience I vaguely recall.
- Cockbrand 3y agoAs mentioned in another comment, there is a quite decent WASM based Flash player now [0]. I don't know whether Adobe Animate can even export .fla any more, though. [0] https://ruffle.rs/ https://ruffle.rs/