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Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

timw4mail wrote: post #8
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #6

They really shouldn't make Flash completely unavailable to download. They're cutting off a lot of legacy content with cultural significance. Yes, using unmaintained software is bad for security. However, the alternative of forcing people to use third party sources—which will all be somewhat shady, since Flash is technically under copyright—is even worse for security! Now, you might be downloading a fake, malicious co…

Shockwave !== Flash. Confusing, yes, as Flash was sometimes labeled as Shockwave Flash.

The article says they're also discontinuing normal Adobe Flash.

In addition, everything I said applies to Shockwave as well, albeit to a lesser extent.

(Also, what the heck is with that confusing name? It made troubleshooting a Shockwave issue quite annoying a couple years back, because all my searches for "Shockwave" turned up results related to "Shockwave Flash".)

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by jonplackett »

Can't believe they're still updating it.

I do still miss the ease of use fo flash though.

Wish someone would make something this simple outputting web standards.

Flash let a whole bunch of creative people make interactive experiments and websites that they just don't have the technical skills to do now you need to use a more formal setup.

Flash sucked for many reasons, but for this it was excellent and hasn't been replaced.

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

jonplackett wrote: post #12

Can't believe they're still updating it. I do still miss the ease of use fo flash though. Wish someone would make something this simple outputting web standards. Flash let a whole bunch of creative people make interactive experiments and websites that they just don't have the technical skills to do now you need to use a more formal setup. Flash sucked for many reasons, but for this it was excellent and hasn't been re…

Adobe Animate is basically a rebranded version of Flash, and it can export html5. I don't know how complete/compatible the export option is, but I know we've used it at my company for a small project.

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by basch »

jonplackett wrote: post #12

Can't believe they're still updating it. I do still miss the ease of use fo flash though. Wish someone would make something this simple outputting web standards. Flash let a whole bunch of creative people make interactive experiments and websites that they just don't have the technical skills to do now you need to use a more formal setup. Flash sucked for many reasons, but for this it was excellent and hasn't been re…

Flash and Shockwave are two different things. Flash is still around as Animate.

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by basch »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #11
timw4mail wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shockwave !== Flash. Confusing, yes, as Flash was sometimes labeled as Shockwave Flash.

The article says they're also discontinuing normal Adobe Flash. In addition, everything I said applies to Shockwave as well, albeit to a lesser extent. (Also, what the heck is with that confusing name? It made troubleshooting a Shockwave issue quite annoying a couple years back, because all my searches for "Shockwave" turned up results related to "Shockwave Flash".)

The article literally says that Flash will not be discontinued.

>Adobe continues to offer a rich set of content creation tools through Creative Cloud, including Adobe Animate CC for authoring interactive content for multiple platforms, such HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR and others.

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by godzillabrennus »

egypturnash wrote: post #3

Holy crap, they were still updating Director as late as ~2016? I don't think I've heard anyone talk about using it since like 2000. Feels super weird to see "Adobe Director". I always just figured they dropped it like they did Freehand after they bought Macromedia for Flash.

Still hurts that they killed Fireworks. Best photo editor ever for quick web ready edits.

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

Theodores wrote: post #9

A decade ago people were able to put together very impressive things in Flash. I was never wanting to take that route however that content still deserves to be viewable by future generations. Sure the Flash viewer might open your computer to hackers but if I wanted to see what my music mad workmate was trying to impress me with a decade ago then it would be nice to be able to risk my computer viewing it. With browser…

Adobe has a standalone program called Flash Projector that can load swf files. That's what I'd generally recommend for viewing Flash content, though you do need to isolate and save any swf files beforehand.

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

basch wrote: post #16
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article says they're also discontinuing normal Adobe Flash. In addition, everything I said applies to Shockwave as well, albeit to a lesser extent. (Also, what the heck is with that confusing name? It made troubleshooting a Shockwave issue quite annoying a couple years back, because all my searches for "Shockwave" turned up results related to "Shockwave Flash".)

The article literally says that Flash will not be discontinued. >Adobe continues to offer a rich set of content creation tools through Creative Cloud, including Adobe Animate CC for authoring interactive content for multiple platforms, such HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR and others.

I'm not sure why they mentioned Flash in that press release. I suppose Adobe technically "continues to offer it" as of right now.

Scroll down a little further. There's a subhead titled "Adobe Flash marked for retirement as well"

Re: Adobe to Discontinue Shockwave on April 9th

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Post by propelol »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #17
egypturnash wrote: post #3

Holy crap, they were still updating Director as late as ~2016? I don't think I've heard anyone talk about using it since like 2000. Feels super weird to see "Adobe Director". I always just figured they dropped it like they did Freehand after they bought Macromedia for Flash.

Still hurts that they killed Fireworks. Best photo editor ever for quick web ready edits.

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