I still use Flash
foon.uk
I still use Flash
1–10 of 408 posts
Re: I still use Flash
#2Hey HN, I haven't done a lot of technical postmortem blogpost-style writing
so I'd welcome any feedback or tips on how to improve. Is it too long, too
short, too technical, not technical enough? Boring? Interesting? Is it
enlightening or does it just come off like content marketing? I literally
have no idea how good I am at this.
Re: I still use Flash
#3[flagged]
Re: I still use Flash
#4[flagged]
I didn't read the whole thing but my sense was what was actually preserved was the game's code in AS3.
I think you could still call this a soft port.
Re: I still use Flash
#5I still haven't seen anything beat Flash with its sweet 1-2 combo of vector drawing, animation and programming tool
Or maybe it's just me reminiscing
Re: I still use Flash
#6C'mon, Adobe. Open source it.
Re: I still use Flash
#7[flagged]
But if you had read TFA you would have realized it talks about creating a new player that can understand swf files so those don’t have to be rewritten, it’s not about using the old, ugly, insecure Flash player from Adobe.
Re: I still use Flash
#8So he created his own flash player. Couldnt someone use WASM to run a flash player in the browser? Without the original flash security risks.
Re: I still use Flash
#9[flagged]
But if you had read TFA you would have realized it talks about creating a new player that can understand swf files so those don’t have to be rewritten, it’s not about using the old, ugly, insecure Flash player from Adobe.
Like Ruffle? https://ruffle.rs/
Re: I still use Flash
#10So he created his own flash player. Couldnt someone use WASM to run a flash player in the browser? Without the original flash security risks.
That's what Shumway did (it's now unmaintained), and what Ruffle does.