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The Photoshop giant promised Flash would die on January 12, 2021. Thanks to the International Date Line, The Register's Asia-Pacific bureau, like other parts of the world, are already living in a sweet, sweet post-Flash future, and can report that if you try to access content in Adobe's Flash Player in this cyber-utopia, you'll see the following:
[...] Adobe's page also explains why you'll see the Flash Death Notice depicted above, rather than Flash content:
Since Adobe is no longer supporting Flash Player after the EOL Date, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021 to help secure users' systems. Flash Player may remain on the user's system unless the user uninstalls it.
More specifically, what's happened is that Adobe snuck a logic bomb into its Flash software some releases ago that activates on January 12, and causes the code to refuse to render any more content from that date. Adobe has also removed previous versions from its site, and "strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems."
[...] Thus ends Flash, which started life in 1993 as a vector drawing product named SmartSketch, from long-dead company FutureWave Software. FutureWave turned SmartSketch into an animation tool called FutureSplash Animator. FutureWave was acquired by Macromedia in 1996, occasioning a name change to Macromedia Flash 1.0.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by iWantToKeepAnon on Tuesday January 12 2021, @08:25PM (1 child)
Hindsight is 20/20 and now everyone is saying good riddance, but in the beginning flash was the only viable solution for video on the internet. It gave rise to youtube, for all the good and bad that is a net positive. And I remember getting in a few pot shots at Osama bin Laden, that was cool.
Instead of giving flash a kick in the ribs and feeling smug, why not say thanks and so long and thanks for all the fish?
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday January 13 2021, @03:38AM
That, and I notice Flash videos use less CPU than html5 and alternatives. Stated another way, I could play higher resolution videos in Flash than html5.
Some years ago I had a gig doing online courses. I didn't teach, just put the stuff together. At the end was a quiz done in Adobe Flash, and I would write it in "actionscript". Not my idea, but it was a pretty good way to prevent cheating. I'm sure there are many detractors who will correct me and tell me how insecure it was, how easily broken, cheated on, etc., but still more difficult to crack than some javascript thing. Again, none of it was my creation- I was just the grunt.