> You-collective can thank, to a significant degree, my wife Deirdre for
> the demise of Macromedia^W Adobe Flash -- in the sense that she was
> working as an engineer at Apple, Inc. in the 2000s on the Apple Safari
> Web browser team ... The material she provided went straight to
> CEO Steve Jobs, who relied on it heavily in his April 2010 open letter "Thoughts on Flash"
That's really a very significant piece of history there, Rick! Thanks for sharing.
> There remains the problem of making sure existing Flash games and Flash
> artwork/animations continue to be usable.
> . . .
> . . . and why we should be on balance glad it's getting killed.
Yeah, I'm certain most people would not mourn the demise of Flash! I for one is also glad to see the back of it.
However, I'm old enough to know that, over the decades, there have been a HUGE amount of contents, like online courses, apps and other learning assets (and of course, some cat videos) built in or published in Flash. My worry is, for some of the very old resource sites that no one is maintaining anymore (or do not have the resources to fix the contents), does this mean some of the contents out there, despite their historical value, may be inaccessible by future generations?
I suppose this is one example where the demise of a once-popular proprietary format is leading to the loss of some of humanity's historical records ...
Regards,
Wen