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Re:Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive by triangleman on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:47PM (#25215142)
Sorry I don't understand what is the connection between HTML5 and Flash? Isn't flash an object that runs inside HTML5? What would you like Adobe to have done exactly?
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Re:Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive by Marazan on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:38AM (#25236259)
Instead of outputting a flash object file the Flash tools could have output actual HTML.

The Flash Player is, at the end of the day, a proprietary Canvas widget with a ECMAScript based VM powering it. With HTML5 they could have targetted the actual real HTML5 Canvas and completely eliminated the flash player plug in whilst still retaining the tools.

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