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Re:Adobe has released the last Flash update ever by schoolornot on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:51AM (#25375608)
All they had to do was open the spec for SWF and Flex. Those greedy you know whats at Adobe. There was no threat whatsoever of the official tools being overtaken by alternatives. There is still no replacement today for motion tweens and the kinds of projects people built back then.
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Re:Adobe has released the last Flash update ever by Jasper_ on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:43PM (#25376227)
SWF format details were published in 2010, and Flex was also open-sourced around that same timeframe.
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Re:Adobe has released the last Flash update ever by wtallis on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:40PM (#25380861)
That was probably about five years too late for the open-sourcing strategy to be successful. By 2010 Flash was already widely reviled on the desktop and doomed to be shut out of the mobile browsing experience. But if there had been at least a fledgling open-source Flash ecosystem for a year or two before the iPhone was released, things could have played out very differently.
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