Re:Ask HN: Why Adobe still can’t figure out Flash on WASM?
by sidewndr46 on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:14AM
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bitmap spritesheets? Wouldn't that be converting vector graphics into a bitmap format? So a huge step backwards?
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Re:Ask HN: Why Adobe still can’t figure out Flash on WASM?
by kmeisthax on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:39AM
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Yes. And also yes.
The graphics primitives the web provides are actually not that great at emulating Flash's specific graphics model. SVG and canvas differ from Flash in a few key areas, especially to do with masking; and WebGL/WebGPU are very low-level and rendering vectors on GPU is hell.
This could have been fixed by having Animate switch to an SVG+SMIL renderer for HTML5 projects, but Adobe wanted a quick fix to keep Animate relevant beyond Flash Player.