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Flash continues to sink away into the shadows:
Adobe is finally ready to say goodbye to Flash. In an announcement last night, Adobe said that it will now "encourage content creators to build with new web standards," such as HTML5, rather than Flash. It's also beginning to deprecate the Flash name by renaming its animation app to Animate CC, away from Flash Professional CC.
[...] By acknowledging that Flash is dying, Adobe is able to better position its animation tools for the future. Flash Professional CC is already capable of creating HTML5 content — in fact, it already represents a third of all content created in the app, according to Adobe. By taking up the name Animate CC, Adobe is able to sell Flash Professional CC as a general animation tool, rather than a tool geared toward Flash. The name change will take effect early next year.
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(Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:05AM
Flash had its day with online games and animations, but it seems to be used for either videos or invasive user tracking the vast majority of time these days.
I do wonder what's going to happen to all the old flash stuff though. Flash animations were extremely popular before youtube was a thing, and it'd be a pity if all of that content became unplayable in the future.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:15AM
My thoughts exactly. At the time, it was very much needed. Heck, you couldn't make most games and apps any other way. What were you going to do? Create a JAVA game? That sounds painful and masochistic. At first they were the only ones trying to do it, and then of course, had to fuck it up Adobe style with proprietary formats and a security paradigm of, "you break this paper lock, we will tell on you".
Thank God it may finally be over. What I hope more than anything is that these tools allow easy conversion of older flash apps to the newer HTML5 based ones. It would be nice to clean up all the crap out there to the point where I may finally be able to start blocking flash at a network level even, or even better yet, not have Adobe code bases on my systems at all.
We're effectively retiring a heavy threat vector more infected than the most diseased hooker.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday December 03 2015, @10:30AM
Flash animations were extremely popular before youtube was a thing, and it'd be a pity if all of that content became unplayable in the future.
They certainly were. I never managed to actually punch the monkey :(
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday December 03 2015, @12:05PM
Especially everybody's favorite early use of Flash animation: The annoying site intro [zombo.com].
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Wootery on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:12PM
Third-party FOSS Flash interpreters ought to last forever, but their compatibility is far from perfect.
Shumway [github.io] implements a Flash interpreter in HTML5. If they could get that to work with, say, 90% of existing Flash content, I'd say the problem is essentially solved.