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Re:Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can... by mike_hearn on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:04AM (#33816322)
Worth noting that the SWF format was towards the end of its lifecycle and open standard as well. Fully documented with open source players and tooling available.
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Re:Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can... by stuaxo on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:44AM (#33816842)
Ruffle.rs looks pretty promising for playing flash.

Adobe still has the editor as Adobe Animate - if they made it more widely available, I think there is a big demographic of designers that would like to make a bit of animation or active graphics that is not being served any more.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can... by ac29 on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:34AM (#33818627)
As someone who has used Linux on the Desktop for 20+ years, I can say with pretty high confidence that open source flash players could not run more than a trivial amount of real world flash content at the end of its life cycle ~10 years ago.
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