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ST_Dee
ST_Dee
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June 11, 2020
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Flash end of life

  • June 11, 2020
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I understand the reasons to end the support for flash. for your users Adobe should provide a way to migrate their contents(learning) or apps to a new technology. please let me know if i am missing on this news.

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      Correct answer jeromiec83223024

      Thanks for your feedback.

       

      Here's the EOL announcement from 2017 and accompanying background:

      https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

       

      Here's the consumer FAQ: 

      https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

       

       

       

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      hs5C15
      Participating Frequently
      January 13, 2021

      This is not a correct answer it is just a standard company cop out.

      jeromiec83223024
      Community Manager
      jeromiec83223024Community ManagerCorrect answer
      Community Manager
      January 12, 2021

      Thanks for your feedback.

       

      Here's the EOL announcement from 2017 and accompanying background:

      https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

       

      Here's the consumer FAQ: 

      https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

       

       

       

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      hs5C15
      Participating Frequently
      January 12, 2021

      All I got was a message saying end of life.  Thank you Adobe Flash for spoiling my fun.  Should have been a seemless transfer to a different product.  You have failed big time.  Now people all over the world hate your guts.

        Robert Mc Dowell
        Robert Mc Dowell
        Legend
        January 12, 2021

        morality, never trust any kind of corporation.

        Robert Mc Dowell
        Robert Mc Dowell
        Legend
        June 11, 2020

        @ST_Dee

        Agree, that's why today it's very important to trust the technology authors to be able to share the sources for a long term development.

        It's also unfortunately a major browser decision to remove their plugin API, so maybe you can just use alternative browsers like mypal, seamonkey or else.

        @Test_Screen_Name

        sometimes you have to understand and accept that the Flash app used cannot be migrated in another technology for various reason indepedent from your wish, like functions not existing in javascript or simply impossible to migrate (like NetGroup or Stage3D), or financially or time risk reason, or simply because the SWF sources are not available anymore

        ST_Dee
        ST_DeeAuthor
        Participant
        June 12, 2020

        Thanks for your response, but then i see no benefit in trusting Adobe's authoring tools as my expectation is they should provide some process or tool to support this migration. i have majority of the content in Adobe Presenter but i am also standing in the same line as others with any authoring tool. going with Adobe & their tools and applications should give us some way out...Adobe should chalk out some process of easy transformation at least for their own authoring tools like presenter or captivate.

        jeromiec83223024
        Community Manager
        jeromiec83223024Community Manager
        Community Manager
        June 12, 2020

        Current versions of Presenter should allow you to export your projects to target native web technolgies (HTML5/JavaScript) instead of Flash Player, assuming you have the actual project files.  Presenter isn't exactly my wheelhouse, but the folks in the Presenter forums should be able to help you with the specifics.

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        Test Screen Name
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        June 11, 2020

        If there were a way to migrate apps and contents, then it would have been done years ago, and Flash closed down. Apps and content need to be completely remade using a different technology. This cannot be automated, which is why developers were given over 3 years to do the work... 

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