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When all browsers disable Flash, a ton of old artistic content will become unaccessible. I'm thinking specifically about Homestuck animations and minigames, but

When all browsers disable Flash, a ton of old artistic content will become unaccessible. I'm thinking specifically about Homestuck animations and minigames, but other people will have their own favorites. Is there a good transition plan?

easytiger 11y ago
Nope. no reasonable alternative to flash has proven viable. Which is crazy.
- Sammi 11y ago
  Canvas, WebGL, Javascript? If it's because you enjoy the Adobe Flash tooling, then Adobe is doing exporting to both Canvas and WebGL now. http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2014/02/flash-html5-canvas.html http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2014/02/flash-html5-canvas.html https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/how-to/flashpro-export-webgl.html https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/how-to/flashpro-export-webgl.h...
  - cousin_it 11y ago
    If I make an animation or game using these technologies today, will it work unchanged ten years from now?
    - Sammi 11y ago
      Do modern web browsers still render standard compliant web content from 10 years correctly today? (Yes they do)
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  - easytiger 11y ago
    I dont like the tooling, but the fact is trying to do some of the things flash currently doe will turn a macbook pro into a melting mess
rockdoe 11y ago
Shumway?
- TD-Linux 11y ago
  Shumway actually works pretty well on a lot of the old avm1/2 animations. Few run perfectly, but it shows that it is a practical way forward.
1ris 11y ago
Flash has become subject to retrocomputing. There are plenty of PC Emulators aviable that run Windows XP and flash just fine. You shouldn't connect them to the internet though.
benguild 11y ago
However, it will also make it more secure by making it less of a target for hackers. If you have to enable it only for certain content … then great. That’s how it should be at this point. Look at what happened to Java applets.
- yoklov 11y ago
  Java Applets are hard to run on many machines (apple machines are especially bad in this respect), even for technically skilled users. It would be very sad to see this become the state of all the old flash games/animations.
sosuke 11y ago
I've seen countless Flash animations turned into Youtube videos, which means the quality has dropped considerably.
yoklov 11y ago
This is the biggest issue IMO. Seeing flash go the way of DOS and etc. would be very sad.
cpeterso 11y ago
Someone could write an Adobe Air application to play old Flash content outside of a browser.

easytiger 11y ago

Nope. no reasonable alternative to flash has proven viable. Which is crazy.

Sammi 11y ago
Canvas, WebGL, Javascript? If it's because you enjoy the Adobe Flash tooling, then Adobe is doing exporting to both Canvas and WebGL now. http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2014/02/flash-html5-canvas.html http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2014/02/flash-html5-canvas.html https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/how-to/flashpro-export-webgl.html https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/how-to/flashpro-export-webgl.h...
- cousin_it 11y ago
  If I make an animation or game using these technologies today, will it work unchanged ten years from now?
  - Sammi 11y ago
    Do modern web browsers still render standard compliant web content from 10 years correctly today? (Yes they do)
    - deleted 11y ago
      [deleted]
- easytiger 11y ago
  I dont like the tooling, but the fact is trying to do some of the things flash currently doe will turn a macbook pro into a melting mess

rockdoe 11y ago

Shumway?

TD-Linux 11y ago
Shumway actually works pretty well on a lot of the old avm1/2 animations. Few run perfectly, but it shows that it is a practical way forward.

1ris 11y ago

Flash has become subject to retrocomputing. There are plenty of PC Emulators aviable that run Windows XP and flash just fine. You shouldn't connect them to the internet though.

benguild 11y ago

However, it will also make it more secure by making it less of a target for hackers. If you have to enable it only for certain content … then great. That’s how it should be at this point. Look at what happened to Java applets.

yoklov 11y ago
Java Applets are hard to run on many machines (apple machines are especially bad in this respect), even for technically skilled users. It would be very sad to see this become the state of all the old flash games/animations.

sosuke 11y ago

I've seen countless Flash animations turned into Youtube videos, which means the quality has dropped considerably.

yoklov 11y ago

This is the biggest issue IMO. Seeing flash go the way of DOS and etc. would be very sad.

cpeterso 11y ago

Someone could write an Adobe Air application to play old Flash content outside of a browser.