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Remember that Jobs banned it to kill it. https://www.cnet.com/news/jobs-why-apple-banned-flash-from-t...
I don't think this is the fatal reason Flash is stopped. Flash is only forbidden in mobile web browsers. Flash is mainly self-cancelled by Adobe itself. It looks they couldn't get expected revenue from this product. However, I think they are short-sighted at this point.
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> > Adobe just couldn't get it done. > They should have fully open sourced it, at least the runtime. Rumor had it that there was code in there that Adobe (or more likely, FutureSplash) had licensed and couldn't release.
Something like that doesn't necessarily need to be a deal breaker. Part of Doom 3 was patent encumbered, but Id released the rest of the engine with that bit removed. Releasing part of the software in a nonfunctional state is much better than nothing.
There is also the possibility that the licensed code would have been trivial to work around, which ironically would have created more liability for Adobe due to the mind-boggling stupidity that is "software patents" (in theory, software patents claim a specific implementation, but then in practice are often used to shake down anyone who makes a different implementation of the same idea, and the simpler the idea behind the patent, the worse the problem gets, unless you can find prior art to invalidate the patent claims). All of which would have put Adobe in a tough position, since they are fairly pro software patents.
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I never liked Flash, but the browsers were very far behind initially. Animation was slow and stuttering. At some point the browser vendors started addressing that, and things got better. But I think the other part of Flash is the tools used to create it - I never understood why they didn't port those to HTML5 and worked with the browser vendors to get kinks ironed out, instead of doubling down on - what was the name…
Abobe's failure to switch the flash tools to targeting HTML5 is one of the most inexplicable decisions of all time. In late 2000s they owned the Web App space ( what was called Rich Internet Applications in their speak). Flex (their business GUI components library and markup language) was absolutely dominating corporate Web app development. And they just abandoned it. In an alternative reality we are all building HTM…
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Abobe's failure to switch the flash tools to targeting HTML5 is one of the most inexplicable decisions of all time. In late 2000s they owned the Web App space ( what was called Rich Internet Applications in their speak). Flex (their business GUI components library and markup language) was absolutely dominating corporate Web app development. And they just abandoned it. In an alternative reality we are all building HTM…
Sorry I don't understand what is the connection between HTML5 and Flash? Isn't flash an object that runs inside HTML5? What would you like Adobe to have done exactly?
The Flash Player is, at the end of the day, a proprietary Canvas widget with a ECMAScript based VM powering it. With HTML5 they could have targetted the actual real HTML5 Canvas and completely eliminated the flash player plug in whilst still retaining the tools.
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Flash will not be supported in any of the large browsers after December, limiting access to people who go out of their way to use both a fork that preserves NPAPI or whatever Chromium uses and manually install some version of Flash. I'm not aware of any search engines that index arbitrary files that the browser or some ubiquitous media viewer can't open. The most annoying I can think of is the occasional powerpoint f…
There is a binary, Windows-native SWF player that still works 100% perfectly on Win 10. There is also one for OSX but with Apple's hatred for backwards compatibility I have no idea whether it still works or not It's a shame that Adobe has all but buried it, but it does work. Honestly its the only good way to view downloaded flash content nowadays, because it preserves all the hyperlinks and other nonlinearity that is…