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58 pointsposted 4 days ago

by gzalo

(flashkitty.gzalo.com)

10 Comments

guidedlight

3 days ago

Great work. We definitely lost a prominent part of the Internet when Flash died.

Thanks Steve /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

j45

3 days ago

The loss was one thing

Any conceivable replacement wasn’t ready to go either

Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control.

Flash was far from perfect. It’s still interesting to see new devs discovering what it could do 15-25 years ago and what is comparably mainstream when it exited.. up until now.

benoau

3 days ago

> Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control.

Just when it got to the point Flash could transpile to native iOS apps, Apple banned transpilation for six months or so at which point the DOJ was rumored to be investigating. By the time the ban was lifted there was virtually nothing being developed in Flash.

Of course none of this would have been worth doing without also banning developers from mentioning, linking or communicating competing prices in apps or to app users to really isolate the gacha gamers from other spending funnels.

wslh

3 days ago

Back during the dot-com era, I created and wrote the story concept for a sci-fi Flash animation called Zeek [1]. It eventually aired on the Locomotion TV channel [2], which was later acquired by Sony. Several members of the team had experience working as illustrators with DC Comics.

It's important to highlight, especially in 2024, that Flash was the way to create this type of animation back then, as streaming was prohibitive for most internet connections around the world.

[1] http://swain.webframe.org/zeek.html (as SWF) and in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeek+locomotion

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion_(TV_channel)