(Thankfully, images made it into the spec before 1993, did not exist.) Until recently, it was simply impossible to embed or control audio or video in HTML without relying on a plugin of some sort. Many of these elements, if native to HTML, could enhance good web design when used appropriately. When compared head-on with Flash, HTML appears to be missing many crucial features such as immersive graphical UIs, motion tweens, shiny UI effects, "skip intro" buttons (heh) and audio and video control. These multimedia features simply didn't exist in browsers at the time. In its early days, Flash was the de-facto plugin for creating "fun" on the web: animation, sound, and eventually, video. The "truthiness" of these things is part of what makes the web better. Adobe will block Flash as of January 12, 2021. Then again maybe they do not know the possibilities of html5, css, javascript or even the possibilitys of using web assembly in browsers.Flash's official "EOL" is December 31, 2020. I'm not critisizing any of the Adobe staff that help out in these forums, but it would be nice to know from those above them if they even have any plans for the future without flash, even though most of us dropped flash years ago. In the programs that are aimed at creating web sites and browser based apps however, there is nothing, zero, zilch.Ĭan it be that the PM's for programs that create web sites and content do not have any plans? However for a number of other adobe programs, that use flash in an app environment and not a browser based one, the PM's of those programs have posted about plans for the future, after the demise of the flash player.
#Adobe flash starting today is dead pro#
Many of those posters are in denial about the demise of flash, and i even read one reply that told someone to drop back to an older version of flash pro to create flash content for the web if required!!! I've found one big advantage to being a moderator, and that is being able to read posts for various forums easily. Maybe it's a sign of old age when I cannot think of what use something should be, (don't agree with that ). Most UI elements, from menus, carousels, lightboxes to parallax scrolling effects, can be done using just html and css, which is why I think Dw should support the creation of css animations.Īs for WebGL, I played with the original IE implementation and created a few demos, (including the usual 3d solar system animation and rotating Aircraft) and to be honest I found it fantastic, but I have no idea where to use it in a practical situation. Having said that there is not a single Adobe product that supports working with css animations, (transition/transform/keyframes) in a visual manner, The html5 specs and the W3C specs are all written for browser implementer, (with minor exceptions) but actually deciding which product from adobe something would be best suited, is like trying to work through a maze. The problem I find with making any suggestions is that there is a disconnect between what the browsers implement, what the W3C 'documents', and how Adobe thinks which product it should be implemented in. At the moment Animate only includes a preview that does not allow it to be used fully. I am waiting for the moment that I can try WebGL. I get the animations delivered as FLA files and I use Animate to convert them to HTML, JS and images. Problem is that I get a lot of my work from graphic designers who are used to working in Flash and are now working with Animate. Their creativity essentially ceased after the company's founders became inactive.Ī CSS editor in DW would be a great idea if the designer and developer are one and the same. What killed Macromedia was the purchase of ColdFusion's parent, as well as frivolous lawsuits initiated by.Adobe. Dreamweaver was loosely based on a program called Backstage (if I recall the name right), but was mostly an in-house Macromedia development. FutureWave was not Flash, it was used as the basis for Flash, combined with the Shockwave player, originally developed by Macromedia for its flagship Director program.
#Adobe flash starting today is dead software#
Macromedia, on the other hand, made phenomenal improvements to the software they acquired. They are obviously quite good at making at left turns and southerly headings. and did absolutely nothing to make it better. Some years later, Adobe acquired Macromedia. In 1996, Macromedia acquired FutureWave and renamed the animation editor Macromedia Flash. The editor was then called FutureSplash Animator. Flash was created by a San Diego tech company called FutureWave. Macromedia developed Shockwave technology but they did not create Flash.