Whether they like it or not, this will cause issues for legacy use cases and people will likely just resort to using out of date versions of the extension.
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As is Homestar Runner
Don’t worry, Strongbad saved up enough movements in F-Sack for them to learn HTML 5 and carry on. Strongbadia will stand!
Barring that, they can always fall back on Mario Paint.
I was just glad they finished the Stinkoman game.
That site relies too much on Flash?
Isn't a lot of Newgrounds almost all flash too?
EDIT: Also people don't know what ebaumsworld is?
Newgrounds actually went ahead and produced their own flash player for this.
Here's hoping it's not going to give people's PCs cancer.
If Adobe made their Flash-to-HTML5 conversion software available without any strings attached, I wouldn't have much of an issue with this. It's the combination of killing the tool to view Flash files and expecting people to rent the software that converts Flash files to a still-supported format that is a dick move.
There's an ongoing effort for a Flash emulator - https://ruffle.rs/
It was posted on Poal's OneAngryGamer sub a few days ago.
Sure, what could possibly go wrong
Why are they doing this?
I don't see the point of this.
Flash is really garbage and full of security holes. They're killing it to prevent people from relying on it as the only way to force change in a lot of ways is to make bold moves like this.
This announcement of retirement happened years ago so if your business is still relying on Flash in some fashion it's on you or your retarded superiors.
Honestly the only people I see upset about the Flash changes are considered with the legacy content of the internet being lost. Which is a valid concern I think.
I come from an IT background (like a lot of people here), so I guess I have a different perspective on things. I think it sucks that some stuff will be lost, but I don't really know what they expect anyone to do. Projects that run flash games in a sandbox app have popped up to archive a lot of flash-based content so there still is a record of it's existence at least.
Maybe open sourcing Flash Player is an option, but a lot of the flaws that make Flash bad are architectural. This is the only way I can see this ending.
If people do this, the results are on them. Adobe wants to wipe their hands clean of Flash and for good reason. It's an infinite money hole to maintain, nobody even uses it anymore, and creates more problems than it's worth.
The only reason no one uses it anymore is because of the lack of quality maintenance.
No, the reason no one uses is anymore is because there are much better alternatives that are baked right into web standards. Back when it was popular if you wanted to stream video or add interactive animations to your site, Flash was the only way to build that functionality. As the web consortium realized that these were high demand features, they implemented them directly in web standards themselves so you no longer needed a heavy middleware library. Once that happened, it was only a matter of time before flash faded into obscurity.
Its two competitors, Java applets and Microsoft's Silverlight framework, have similarly faded away.
Those alternatives came into being to compete with flash and rose to prominence because of the shoddy handling Adobe had with flash.
No, those alternatives came because Flash was being used for things it was never designed to do. Remember Flash Player was originally designed as a web frontend for animations made using Adobe's "Flash" animator product. It's ease of use made it popular for web devs to use for animated web pages, which garnered an install base. People then leveraged that install base when designing complex apps like streaming applets and games, even though that was beyond the scope of the Flash player project.
Adobe themselves made a better framework called Air but nobody used it because it was already established that W3 was getting involved. There was no saving Flash because, like all middleware of its type, it goes against the idea of the internet as a concept. If the internet is to be truly open and free, relying on proprietary software from shitty licence trolls like Adobe is absolutely not the way to do it.
At work we have an application we sell that uses it, and I think the way we're dealing with this issue is by basically making our own browser/flash bundle to run that particular application, as it's not a popular enough product to justify porting it to some other technology.
As though this is a bad thing...
Good riddance.