Flash

The Past and Present of Flash
New and exciting things in Web sites:
       Flash had made it possible to have web-based videos, animations, and interactivity very common. Designers and developers were allowed to make new content that works on any computer or browser. Flash made this all possible with the Flash plugin. The Flash plugin did have some guarantees. Some of the guarantees that were made was that the content would look and behave the same way for anyone who loaded it, no matter what type of browser or computer that person was using.

Steve Jobs input on Flash and its useful ways:
         Apple decided that they didn’t want to support Flash with the new iPhone. Steve Jobs has said that Flash is insecure and resource-intensive and its plugin was overly proprietary.
         Even though Apple wasn’t using Flash it was still available on Android devices. It can still be used to create native apps for iOS. Flash was used for some of Facebook’s popular games including FarmVille and Words with Friends were built on Flash. Adobe Flash is also used to provide the best videos for YouTube.

The new Adobe software:
         In 2011, Adobe came out with a new software called Edge Animate. Edge Animate was a new way to create HTML5 content on browsers.
         Over the next years Adobe found out that hackers were using an exploit in Flash Player to inject surveillance software onto users’ computers. So, in 2015 Adobe discontinued Edge Animate and renamed it Animate CC.

Company’s still using Flash and company’s that aren’t:
         There is only one major company that still uses Flash. Facebook still uses Flash for their games. Google on the other hand isn’t using Flash still, but instead has gotten Flash to be blocked by default on their browser Chrome.

The future for Flash and the all-Flash websites:
         The creators of Flash content can update their work to be more modern formats which means cartoons and animations can be converted to video, the vector graphics behind them can be moved to programs like Adobe Illustrator. Video games are more complicated, but they can be saved as executables that will run on Windows and OSX.
         The internet archive and the archive team are currently saving Flash files. They are doing this because the website oldweb.today allows visitors to access achieves of the internet past, providing emulations of vintage browsers. Which will be useful if modern browsers decide to just stop supporting the plugins all together.
         Finding the right version of flash for the right browser is hard to do. Chrome on Linux bundled up flash to Chrome 53, but changed the distributions for 54, so flash won’t work for the newer version of Chrome. Chrome 53 is the last version of chrome that supports flash. Firefox used the latest Adobe Flash plugin which is still available as part of Ubuntu and other common Linux distributions.

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