Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

Post by xedeon » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 2:52 AM UTC

kossae wrote: post #75

jonah-archive wrote: post #2

Really excited about this, and so happy we were able to roll it out before Flash's official deprecation at the end of the year. If you have old SWFs you'd like to share, these are the directions for uploading them so that they'll be emulated in-browser: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Uploading_SWFs_for...

I wish there was a way to get 2Advanced SWFs from somewhere.. Those sites were IMO the ultimate displays of what Flash could do visually.

Post by mrschwabe » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 2:53 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #83

breakfastduck wrote: post #66

Flash as a technology should never be used now unless for artistic purposes. However, it's preservation to be able to run & archiving of flash media are an absolute cornerstone of any attempt to archive the 2000s internet. Flash introduced & inspired countless people who have no doubt gone on to build amazing things in other technologies. I love flash. I'm glad it's not used anymore, but I truly love the content it p…

> Flash as a technology should never be used now unless for artistic purposes. Nothing filled the gap left by Flash. It was easy, accessible, and drew so many young people to create. Flash had security issues, but they could have been fixed. Macromedia and/or Adobe could (and should) have published an open source standard and realized their tooling would always be ahead of the game. They didn't see the incredible opp…

Post by mesh » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 3:06 AM UTC

jimmaswell wrote: post #89

echelon wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Flash as a technology should never be used now unless for artistic purposes. Nothing filled the gap left by Flash. It was easy, accessible, and drew so many young people to create. Flash had security issues, but they could have been fixed. Macromedia and/or Adobe could (and should) have published an open source standard and realized their tooling would always be ahead of the game. They didn't see the incredible opp…

I feel like Unity3D could be turned into an animation tool like Flash with some extensions. It already has HTML5 export.

Post by mesh » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 3:10 AM UTC

untog wrote: post #22

superkuh wrote: post #10

What I don't understand is why google is intentionally excluding .swf results from search results. Okay, fine, you don't want it in Chrome that's your choice. But not indexing .swf in your search engine product because you don't support it in your browser product is crazy. It's going out of their way, doing more work, to hurt people. I guess this is just another example of being unable to count on profit motivated co…

What would Google index? Can you even decipher the contents of a SWF to get keywords out of it?

Post by makeworld » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

jchw wrote: post #5

krapp wrote: post #3

Using an open source Flash emulator written in Rust and exported to Webassembly[0]. [0] https://ruffle.rs/

As a sidenote, I’ve taken some brief dives into Ruffle and it looks very good. There’s great attention to detail everywhere. I hope it has a long future. I’ve previously also taken brief dives into Lightspark and even submitted a minor PR or two. Lightspark is cool, but I feel Ruffle is already surpassing it in regards.