[Discuss] Chrome and Flash

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

It has been replaces by JavaScript and HTML 5 for many things. But for
making animated shorts it hasn't been replaced by anything :( What we do
now is post them as videos on YouTube, which use 10x or more as much
bandwidth and don't look as good as well done Flash vector graphics did.
(Many of the old Flash shorts SOUNDED terrible, but that's because it
didn't have any decent audio codecs in the early days. The later ones that
were done after MP3 was added to Flash were fine.)

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:46 PM Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> Bill Horne wrote:
> > On 9/21/2019 10:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > And, I know that Flash's EOL is the end of next year, and good
> riddance.
> >
> >
> > I've never understood what Flash does or is supposed to do: what is it
> for?
>
> It's a language plus IDE plus runtime environment that offers easy
> interactive programs. There was a runtime player available for
> most browsers.
>
> People used to write games and video players in it.
>
> Problems: closed source, no open protocols, not particularly
> good at adapting to different screen sizes and shapes.  And
> the security story was non-existent.
>
> It's been effectively replaced by JavaScript, which doesn't have
> any of those problems, but is less user-friendly.
>
> -dsr-
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