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Re: Building a new Flash

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Post by paradox460 »

squidbeak wrote: post #189
Brajeshwar wrote: post #107

I personally believe that Flash has had its day and should die a Hero, rather than be resurrected to become a villain. For being open-sourced, it was a pretty hot topic, especially at an interesting gathering inside Macromedia in the summer of 2005. Little did we know (or kinda) that it was going to take a different path with Adobe that Christmas. Honestly, I think, Flash kinda died way before the iPhone was released…

That different path was grim. Adobe wrecked or killed a lot of really good software after the buyout. Freehand and Fireworks were incredible for their day.

I still can't find anything quite as good for web authoring as fireworks.

Re: Building a new Flash

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Post by sneak »

lukan wrote: post #187
sneak wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/src/branch/main/prompts/LL...

I don't like lists like these as I sometimes use half of the "signs" in my writing. And it would be trivial, feeding that list to a LLM and tell it to avoid that style.

You’d think; that was why I made the list. Unfortunately it doesn’t actually work. It rewrites to exclude one tell, and it includes 3 other ones.

Re: Building a new Flash

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Post by lukan »

sneak wrote: post #242
lukan wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like lists like these as I sometimes use half of the "signs" in my writing. And it would be trivial, feeding that list to a LLM and tell it to avoid that style.

You’d think; that was why I made the list. Unfortunately it doesn’t actually work. It rewrites to exclude one tell, and it includes 3 other ones.

Interesting, I guess I will try that out as well.

Re: Building a new Flash

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Post by Chris2048 »

AlienRobot wrote: post #239
qingcharles wrote: post #130

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Flash was great. Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS? I remember trying to produce a Flash renderer in C# when we wrote DudeFactory to render out the characters after you used the Flash app to put all their clothes and accessories on. I think we cheated in the end and pre-rendered large PNGs of them all and used .NET to just layer them all with instructions sent f…

Every time I see SVG mentioned with Flash I just think it's immensely ignorant. No offense, but programmers love to think of "vectors" as SVG because it's all they know. For several years I kept hearing people say "we have HTML5 and SVG now, so we don't need Flash anymore." And with that Flash animations and games were lost forever and I'm still bitter about it. For artists, SVG is probably the worst vector format im…

Isn't SVG just a format? For example "line art with varying thickness based on tablet pressure" - isn't that an authoring-tool thing?

Re: Building a new Flash

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Post by Chris2048 »

sneak wrote: post #52
spondyl wrote: post #45

This post raises a few flags in my mind that it was at least partly generated by an LLM? That isn't to suggest that this editor doesn't/won't exist, that the editor uses LLM-generated code (which is not a sleight) or that the claims are not truthful. The main things that jump out are the inconsistency in writing style (sometimes doing all lowercase and no punctuation) but then the brief rundown is all perfect spellin…

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/src/branch/main/prompts/LL...

Hmm. I wonder why a GAN can't remove these tells?

Re: Building a new Flash

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Post by zamadatix »

zahlman wrote: post #148
sneak wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/src/branch/main/prompts/LL...

Huh. This page claims "This website requires JavaScript." at the top, yet I can read everything fine. TFA on the other hand is blank without JavaScript.

Not quite everything. Some of the page doesn't load and not all of the functionality works but it is nice enough to let you try to view the parts you can rather than either force it to not load or act like the entire page loaded fine.
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