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popolino17
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August 7, 2017
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End-of-life Flash or what about Adobe Flash Builder future...

  • August 7, 2017
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Hello Adobe,

We would like to be informed in more details about Your decision to “Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.”

We are a university community and university professor's authority and high school teacher`s community.

We are planning to extend existing inter-organizational educational game platform project which current version is based on ActionScript and executed via ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2).

We are deeply concern what will be the future of Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Animate CC which licenses we intend to buy for a long period.

If Your intention to stop updating and distributing Flash Player (e,g AVM2)  how should this products work  - for example Adobe Flash Builder render its ActionScript code through Flash Player!? Adobe Animate CC executes preview the movie – this is in Flash Player!!!

So, in summary  - Whether this two products shall continue to work without limitations after 2020?

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jeromiec83223024
jeromiec83223024
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August 8, 2017

The wise long-term approach would be to adapt your curriculum to use technologies based on the Web Platform (HTML and JavaScript)  or a dedicated game development platform, in favor of Flash Player and ActionScript.  While we're well aware that Flash Builder and Animate CC are great tools for building games, as you've noted, Flash Player is going away. 

The technology and workflow choices that are right for you are going to be largely dependent on your curriculum and the needs of your students.

It's also worth noting that as the major U.S. browser vendors move forward with their agenda to deprecate Flash Player and plug-in interfaces altogether, you'll see an increasing amount of friction in running Flash content on your workstations well before the 2020 deadline.  You'll probably want to adapt your course sooner, rather than later, if only to stay ahead of the support pain. 

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popolino17Author
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August 9, 2017

Thanks jeromiec83223024,

Although Your answer is crystal clear targeting Flash player plugin demise - the main question was - Is it worth We to BUY a LICENSE for the products (mentioned above) that rely on dying technology?

If the concequences of deprecating Flash player have so huge negative impact on Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Animte CC - We will abandone our idea to implement it both at all.

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    popolino17Author
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    August 12, 2017

    I share this sentiment as well.  My personal opinion is that you're doing a disservice to your students by avoiding the jump to technologies like JavaScript, which are relevant to a much larger population of potential employers, and which will be around long after Flash Player has left the scene.  While ActionScript may have applications in some niche markets, it's unlikely going to be work that the majority of your students will find themselves doing.  I see clear pretty clear parallels to architectural programs that still put a lot of weight on pen-and-paper drafting.  There's value there, sure, but it's largely academic.

    In terms of preparing your students for life in a commercial development environment 5-10-15 years down the road, they would probably be better served by different technology choices.


    I don't believe to my eyes!

    Members of this community, among of it dedicated specialist, to make statement like this and to not able to see to real devastating ugly TRUE !

    This is a corporate war!!!

    A Goliat(Apple, Chrome, Microsoft, Mozila etc ) against David (Adobe).

    And wholle this is happed in front of the entire community ...in front of the entire free digital world!!!

    Obviously You do not undrestand the revolutionary conception of this so called Flash technolog.Unfortunately the money makes the world goes round - including killing technology!

    Let me say in this perspective:

    The content someone created few years ago by using certain well established, standartized,working technology because of someone's decision with a HUGE FINACIAL MERCANTILE MOTIVE will not be able to be accesed, to be shared and to be edited never again!

    Could You explain this normally - It is Dictat! It is impingement against freedom of modern digital conception to create, to share and to edit digital content.

    And one more  perspective about new thechnologies - HTML,Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, - were created before AcsionScript!

    And the content created by use of these languages, for example in 1999,it is still accesible not only by the creator but everyone else.

    Where is the freedom to have what You 've created?

    The contemporarry problems are not because of programming language - You should  understand that simple truth!

    The "shockwave" content  is NOT DANGEROUS!

    As an expert in the filed You surely have fully picture of this, right, Mr Flash Player engineer.

    There is not prove of that!

    Content is not harmful! The way of usage - maybe! But i have to chose what to do.

    As a programming language ActionScript is not the problem. In my humble opinion the problem lies in AVM2. But I will not discuss the problems. This is entirely different point of view. The content must be protected. The big lie is that this is an obsolete thecnology. Says by who?

    Those of them with oldest thechnologis than this!

    People, they took from us our freedom of our digital creations (studies, publications, poetry, arts, films, lessons, books...). Just content. But ours!

    Could You explain how could be possible to be accessed  this content created in 1991: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html/

    via Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc. and will be accessed after 2020 when the swf content will be no longer accessed ( The meaning word is accessed -  not supported)

    Where is the new thecnology here? Just plain html content.

    It is so sad that free world does nothing about it. I'm not corporate supporter at all. I value freedom of sharing information with other parts of this world.

    And not be so verbose I'll put the end of this with the prediction that all same Flash functionality today will be fact in the near future but not called Flash .

    OTempora!. O mores!

    O Sancta Simplicta!

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