Dear god no, please just let it die, I don't care about Badger, Badger, snake or Flash hentai flash game nostalgia that much.
What about the end of the world? Are you le tired?
Yes, most definitely le tired of having to deal with Flash.
Petition to open source Flash
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Re: Petition to open source Flash
#22Even if this did happen I doubt browsers would support it (as already mentioned)
If nostalgia is the problem, it would be far less effort to recompile those games into html5
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
An open source Flash player is not perfectly bug-for-bug compatible with the real Flash player.
Sure, but if anyone is really interested in Flash and Adobe's player is reaching EOL, whatever open source project gets to be used as its substitute will become the standard, and no one will care about compatibility with Adobe's Flash player, since no one will have it installed.
This ignores all legacy Flash applications, which were designed for the original player (bugs and all). These are the legacy that need to be preserved. Presumably (though I'd love to see counterexamples) most people using Adobe Animate CC (the latest version and rebrand of Flash) these days are targeting HTML5 anyways.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#24No no no no NO. It's time to get rid of Flash. Open-sourcing will make it live forever. Flash has very little to offer that is not at this point duplicated (or improved upon) by others. It's also woefully insecure. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" will only work for the most trivial bugs in the most common code paths. Plenty of vulnerabilities will remain. In open source, they'll be even easier for attackers to find…
Even if it's not going to be in browsers, I wonder if there's value in open sourcing it so people can create applications that run flash apps.
There's a lot of content out there made with flash, especially games.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#25No no no no NO. It's time to get rid of Flash. Open-sourcing will make it live forever. Flash has very little to offer that is not at this point duplicated (or improved upon) by others. It's also woefully insecure. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" will only work for the most trivial bugs in the most common code paths. Plenty of vulnerabilities will remain. In open source, they'll be even easier for attackers to find…
Very narrow minded. Tens of thousands of games rely on flash, along with many movies and general history of the internet. Open souring it will preserve countless hours of lost work.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#26There could be an issue of opening up even more security issues for people with Flash still installed. That, in turn, will likely lead to an all out campaign to remove Flash from everything possible (maybe not a bad thing at this point). But, honestly - Flash as a platform hasn't advanced much in quite a while. What it once offered - rich multimedia runtime engine across platforms - is either available in the browser…
There is an all out campaign to remove flash from everything possible. Soon it will be gone from every major browser and phone. That's exactly what this is in response to.
Personally I just want to ensure there's a way for me to go back and look at all the work I did in high school. It's already a pain to figure out how to run my old SWF files, and soon it's going to be nearly impossible.
Maybe I should just snapshot a VM with everything set up correctly?
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#27ActionScript is still loved by the Starling community. I don't really think i'll miss the swf format, though
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#28Chances are that Flash contains licensed third-party IP and thus Adobe couldn't unilaterally open source it even if they wanted to.
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#29Yikes. How about a petition to burn it with fire? Petition to erase all mention of flash from history books?
Re: Petition to open source Flash
#30No no no no NO. It's time to get rid of Flash. Open-sourcing will make it live forever. Flash has very little to offer that is not at this point duplicated (or improved upon) by others. It's also woefully insecure. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" will only work for the most trivial bugs in the most common code paths. Plenty of vulnerabilities will remain. In open source, they'll be even easier for attackers to find…
Very narrow minded. Tens of thousands of games rely on flash, along with many movies and general history of the internet. Open souring it will preserve countless hours of lost work.
Ten of thousands of games are created every year.