Adobe ends support for Flash and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from Jan. 1
Flash had to die. It had too many knocks … Caleb Chen / Privacy News Online … : Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 1, 2021 Jenn Gidman / Newser : Adobe Flash Is Officially No More Kevin Collier / NBC News : Goodbye, Flash: The web application everybody used — and hated Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News : Adobe displays Flash Player end of life popup on Windows devices Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Windows 10 Starts Displaying Adobe Flash PlayerWarnings Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : End of an era: As promised, Adobe is officially ending support for Adobe Flash today Tweets: Rob Sheridan / @rob_sheridan : In my first years as a designer, Flash was a revelation. It let me approach the early @nineinchnails websites as artfuck design experiences, back when the whole web was an art project. We mock Flash now, but it fostered a beautiful lost era of experiential web design. RIP. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Steve Ragan / @steved3 : Flash is gone... now Zombocom doesn't work. :-( That website was the only one that made me feel welcome. The infinite was possible at Zombocom. The unobtainable was unknown at Zombocom. Christian rickson / @caerickson : Inevitable, but sad. Making weird animations and rock show promos with Flash in the 90s is what got me my first agency job despite having no degree or formal experience. That job changed my life. Thanks Flash, RIP. https://www.bbc.com/... Carlos Fenollosa / @cfenollosa : Flash is finally gone. With it, part of the history of the Internet. Thankfully the Internet Archive is preserving many games and animations, even though we won't be able to view them without an emulator. https://www.theverge.com/... David Firth / @david_firth : https://www.bbc.com/... I'd just like to add that Salad Fingers hasn't been released in the Flash format since episode 8 in 2007. The software to make it isn't discontinued, just the web player. Casey Newton / @caseynewton : A new year dawns on the internet! Now to take a big sip of coffee and visit all my favorite Flash-based websites Mahyar Tousi / @mahyartousi : Good. While we're getting rid of outdated technologies, can we go and scrap HS2 as well?! https://www.bbc.co.uk/... Eoin McCarthy / @eoinmccarthy : NHS e-learning is going to fall on its arse isn't it? Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest https://www.bbc.co.uk/... Francisco Tolmasky / @tolmasky : We live in a world today where something like Homestar Runner would be way more difficult to create. Companies are OK with this because they can't profit of an independent web comic, and devs are OK with this because they want to fiddle with toolchains, not make animated shorts. @whatdotcd : RIP flash wouldn't be here without you. https://twitter.com/... Amber Atherton / @amberatherton : Many fond childhood memories spending hours on the computer making animations on flash for my terrible e-card website. Was a surreal experience showing them years later on stage #adobesummit @bradrencher #TBT2020 #AdobeFlash https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Graham Cluley / @gcluley : Thank god that's finally over. Adobe Flash I mean. https://www.bbc.co.uk/... Matt May / @mattmay : Today is the Adobe Flash end of life date. I come to bury Flash, not to praise it. As an animation platform, Flash launched the web into new directions. But once it became a UX platform, without the structure of web or OS apps, it left millions behind. (thread) @dietrich : Flash 3 is what hooked me, over 20 years ago. Summer 98 probably. It was SO exciting to get it... well, a cracked demo version - I couldn't afford software. And SO much fun to use. Me with CSS animations, last week: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Andr Staltz / @andrestaltz : While it had its downsides, I share the sentiment that Flash was great for *both* non-coder creators and coders. ActionScript 3 was years ahead of JavaScript. In 2010 it was like TypeScript today. https://twitter.com/... Hanna Fridn / @hannafriden : I was very much pro the end of Flash, mainly because of the security risks. But this is all true. It was a huge loss for the creative community and I really miss all of the awesome stuff people made and the communities around Flash. https://twitter.com/... @tlakomy : When I was like 14 I was able to create a (really) simple game with Flash and post it on NewGrounds (where I was promptly downvoted into abyss, but that's another story) *Nothing* available in 2020 comes close to that experience https://twitter.com/... Francisco Tolmasky / @tolmasky : Apple's vision of democratized programming is signing contracts with school districts to buy 1000 underpowered iPad minis and then having everyone use Swift Playgrounds. If by some miracle students end up becoming devs then the 30% AppStore commission is just icing on the cake. Francisco Tolmasky / @tolmasky : “Thoughts on Flash” was never about the open web and was instead, if anything, about Apple controlling the iPhone ecosystem (and eventually the AppStore). I can't believe there is still such a naive interpretation of this. https://twitter.com/... Tim Sweeney / @timsweeneyepic : @larsiusprime The doc everyone links to - including Wikipedia - has disappeared from Apple's website(!) @larsiusprime : Remember this? “Anything you can do with Flash you can do with JS+Canvas+SVG” Clearly written by a non-artist coder who never used Flash, equivalent to: “Anything you can do with a paintbrush you can also do with a toothpick and an infinite amount of time.” Nicolas Favre-Felix / @yowgi : @TimSweeneyEpic @larsiusprime That's unfortunate, it looks like it was removed around May-June this year. Thankfully the original is archived at the Wayback Machine, it's an interesting read after 10 years. https://web.archive.org/... @larsiusprime : What really mattered about Flash, in my view: 1) For 95% of applications you can just distribute a single SWF file 2) You have a robust authoring tool that is animation/graphics-first and newbie friendly 3) You can send a link to your mom and she can just play it w/ no issues @larsiusprime : The thing that REALLY REALLY pisses me off is all the people who beat the war drums for Flash's demise, very clearly did not understand what made it so special. “I don't see why this is valuable, therefore it is not valuable” @larsiusprime : HTML5 *at its very best* accomplishes most of 3), and is still in the stone age when it comes to 1) and 2). @larsiusprime : Ultimately this is all Adobe's fault. They just decided Flash wasn't the effort. This is ultimately the problem with all proprietary software platforms — the risk that the platform holder will one day just give up and let it rot but not let YOU pick up and carry the torch. Matt May / @mattmay : We had a plan to bring Flash accessibility cross-platform, but then in 2010, there was the Apple memo. Flash as a UI tool had peaked, and not long after, it was over. Flash lived out its last years as a great video player with a bunch of legacy content that withered on the vine. Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg : @tomwarren And I remember how Adobe allowed it to deteriorate into something that crashed your computer and was a vector for malware. Matt May / @mattmay : Today is bittersweet for me. I'm glad the web platform won. “HTML5” was in the first sentence I ever uttered to our CEO, in 2008. Still, I and many others poured our hearts into boiling the ocean of inaccessible Flash, quixotic though we were. It could have been so much more. Tananarive Due / @tananarivedue : Oh no—what will keep my pages from uploading now? https://twitter.com/... Lilah Sturges / @lilahsturges : I guess I can take “Certified ActionScript Developer” off my résumé now. I HAD TO STUDY FOR THAT. https://twitter.com/... Andy Khouri / @andykhouri : This is unbelievable for a certain generation of person. Flash enabled some of the most creative shit, and beyond the web too; so much TV animation has roots in the old handmade Flash cartoons. And of course away goes a whole style of beautiful but functionally useless websites. https://twitter.com/... Sarah Lefton / @sarahlefton : I was 22 and teaching at @parsonsdesign when Flash came out - I had a brilliant semester length class that brought in traditional artists twice my age and turned out experimental animators. Probably my career highlight. I had no idea what a great gig it was, I was too young. https://twitter.com/... Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : It's over. My ActionScript coding skills are needed no longer :) -> Adobe ends support for Flash today and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from January 1 https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Pj Perez / @pjperez : All those months learning to do Flash animation in 2005, gone to waste. https://twitter.com/... Gregory Adams / @grradams : No surprise this interview has been referenced so many times over the years. From privacy to Flash, among other things, Steve Jobs could always see around the corner. https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Joshua Hirsch / @joshuahirsch : Flash was my entry into the biz, and I have so many fond memories of the work, the community, and fighting with designers to remove all the frikkin alpha texture layers. https://www.theverge.com/... James Myers / @arsetechnica : The eulogy for Flash will be delivered in a Format Not Supported Mike Mariano / @marianomike : Cheers to all my fellow former flash designers and developers! Flash was the software that helped me realize my love for art, design, and code. It also taught me never to rely on one specific tool because tools become obsolete. 🙂 https://twitter.com/... Rania Chatzi Morosan / @underflowr : Last day of Adobe Flash today and I kinda feel I'm saying goodbye to a childhood friend 😢 https://twitter.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Today is an end of an era for Adobe Flash. It's officially end of support day. I remember growing up with Macromedia Flash, and how it helped usher in the first meme videos and web games before being key to YouTube https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matthew A. Cherry / @matthewacherry : Good bye Adobe Flash Player. We had some good times. RIP https://twitter.com/... Aaron Levie / @levie : Wow. Today is the last day ever for Adobe Flash. 2020 was not joking around. Stephen Shankland / @stshank : I wrote about this a lot over the years, and I never heard anybody boasting that HTML etc was a “perfect replacement,” but yeah, it's been a long time and the open standards still are generally coder-first tools, not creator-first tools. https://twitter.com/...
https://www.bbc.com/... I'd just like to add that Salad Fingers hasn't been released in the Flash format since episode 8 in 2007. The software to make it isn't discontinued, just the web player.
In my first years as a designer, Flash was a revelation. It let me approach the early @nineinchnails websites as artfuck design experiences, back when the whole web was an art project. We mock Flash now, but it fostered a beautiful lost era of experiential web design. RIP. https:…
Flash is gone... now Zombocom doesn't work. :-( That website was the only one that made me feel welcome. The infinite was possible at Zombocom. The unobtainable was unknown at Zombocom.
Inevitable, but sad. Making weird animations and rock show promos with Flash in the 90s is what got me my first agency job despite having no degree or formal experience. That job changed my life. Thanks Flash, RIP. https://www.bbc.com/...
Flash is finally gone. With it, part of the history of the Internet. Thankfully the Internet Archive is preserving many games and animations, even though we won't be able to view them without an emulator. https://www.theverge.com/...
We live in a world today where something like Homestar Runner would be way more difficult to create. Companies are OK with this because they can't profit of an independent web comic, and devs are OK with this because they want to fiddle with toolchains, not make animated shorts.
Many fond childhood memories spending hours on the computer making animations on flash for my terrible e-card website. Was a surreal experience showing them years later on stage #adobesummit @bradrencher #TBT2020 #AdobeFlash https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Today is the Adobe Flash end of life date. I come to bury Flash, not to praise it. As an animation platform, Flash launched the web into new directions. But once it became a UX platform, without the structure of web or OS apps, it left millions behind. (thread)
Flash 3 is what hooked me, over 20 years ago. Summer 98 probably. It was SO exciting to get it... well, a cracked demo version - I couldn't afford software. And SO much fun to use. Me with CSS animations, last week: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
While it had its downsides, I share the sentiment that Flash was great for *both* non-coder creators and coders. ActionScript 3 was years ahead of JavaScript. In 2010 it was like TypeScript today. https://twitter.com/...
I was very much pro the end of Flash, mainly because of the security risks. But this is all true. It was a huge loss for the creative community and I really miss all of the awesome stuff people made and the communities around Flash. https://twitter.com/...
When I was like 14 I was able to create a (really) simple game with Flash and post it on NewGrounds (where I was promptly downvoted into abyss, but that's another story) *Nothing* available in 2020 comes close to that experience https://twitter.com/...
Apple's vision of democratized programming is signing contracts with school districts to buy 1000 underpowered iPad minis and then having everyone use Swift Playgrounds. If by some miracle students end up becoming devs then the 30% AppStore commission is just icing on the cake.
“Thoughts on Flash” was never about the open web and was instead, if anything, about Apple controlling the iPhone ecosystem (and eventually the AppStore). I can't believe there is still such a naive interpretation of this. https://twitter.com/...
Remember this? “Anything you can do with Flash you can do with JS+Canvas+SVG” Clearly written by a non-artist coder who never used Flash, equivalent to: “Anything you can do with a paintbrush you can also do with a toothpick and an infinite amount of time.”
@TimSweeneyEpic @larsiusprime That's unfortunate, it looks like it was removed around May-June this year. Thankfully the original is archived at the Wayback Machine, it's an interesting read after 10 years. https://web.archive.org/...
What really mattered about Flash, in my view: 1) For 95% of applications you can just distribute a single SWF file 2) You have a robust authoring tool that is animation/graphics-first and newbie friendly 3) You can send a link to your mom and she can just play it w/ no issues
The thing that REALLY REALLY pisses me off is all the people who beat the war drums for Flash's demise, very clearly did not understand what made it so special. “I don't see why this is valuable, therefore it is not valuable”
Ultimately this is all Adobe's fault. They just decided Flash wasn't the effort. This is ultimately the problem with all proprietary software platforms — the risk that the platform holder will one day just give up and let it rot but not let YOU pick up and carry the torch.
We had a plan to bring Flash accessibility cross-platform, but then in 2010, there was the Apple memo. Flash as a UI tool had peaked, and not long after, it was over. Flash lived out its last years as a great video player with a bunch of legacy content that withered on the vine.
Today is bittersweet for me. I'm glad the web platform won. “HTML5” was in the first sentence I ever uttered to our CEO, in 2008. Still, I and many others poured our hearts into boiling the ocean of inaccessible Flash, quixotic though we were. It could have been so much more.
This is unbelievable for a certain generation of person. Flash enabled some of the most creative shit, and beyond the web too; so much TV animation has roots in the old handmade Flash cartoons. And of course away goes a whole style of beautiful but functionally useless websites. …
I was 22 and teaching at @parsonsdesign when Flash came out - I had a brilliant semester length class that brought in traditional artists twice my age and turned out experimental animators. Probably my career highlight. I had no idea what a great gig it was, I was too young. http…
It's over. My ActionScript coding skills are needed no longer :) -> Adobe ends support for Flash today and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from January 1 https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
No surprise this interview has been referenced so many times over the years. From privacy to Flash, among other things, Steve Jobs could always see around the corner. https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Flash was my entry into the biz, and I have so many fond memories of the work, the community, and fighting with designers to remove all the frikkin alpha texture layers. https://www.theverge.com/...
Cheers to all my fellow former flash designers and developers! Flash was the software that helped me realize my love for art, design, and code. It also taught me never to rely on one specific tool because tools become obsolete. 🙂 https://twitter.com/...
Today is an end of an era for Adobe Flash. It's officially end of support day. I remember growing up with Macromedia Flash, and how it helped usher in the first meme videos and web games before being key to YouTube https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
I wrote about this a lot over the years, and I never heard anybody boasting that HTML etc was a “perfect replacement,” but yeah, it's been a long time and the open standards still are generally coder-first tools, not creator-first tools. https://twitter.com/...