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Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source)
lars_doucet (2853771) writes Flash CC now has an SDK for creating custom project file formats; this lets you use the Flash IDE to prepare and publish content for (not-the-flash-player) compile targets. Among these new platforms is OpenFL, a fully open-source re-implementation of the Flash API that exports to Javascript and C++ (no Flash Player!), among other targets: When Adobe demoed the custom project feature at Adobe MAX the other night, they brought out Joshua Granick (lead maintainer of OpenFL) to show off a custom OpenFL project format that lets you make Flash Art in Flash CC, then compile it out to Flash, HTML5, and native C++ (desktop+mobile) targets. Maybe Adobe heard us after all?
This was to be expected, Adobe's biggest asset with Flash was it's authoring tool and the millions of people who are familiar with it. No one cares *how* the content they made is played back . In the end the flash plugin is irrelevant.
Maybe Adobe heard us after all?
Yeah, maybe they listened to us! There was a board meeting in a hot tub on top of a huge black skyscraper, with hookers and blackjack. They were laughing and counting money and all of a sudden, a mobile phone goes off. Then a fat white old dude reaches over to the phone and says apologetically, "sorry everybody, gotta take this one, it's a client of ours".
Then there's maybe a second of silence and everybody laughs really hard. The prostitutes don't get it, but they laugh as well.
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Except they've pivoted and HAVE been making HTML5 authoring tools for the last 3 years. Edge, Muse, Flash (yes, it's been exporting to HTML5 for a while now), among others use HTML5 as their final output.
Except they've pivoted and HAVE been making HTML5 authoring tools for the last 3 years. Edge, Muse, Flash (yes, it's been exporting to HTML5 for a while now), among others use HTML5 as their final output.
I went to a pitch-disguised-as-a-conference for one of Adobe's then-upcoming products (Edge?) and was fairly impressed about Adobe's recommitting to HTML5 authoring and a CSS/JS IDE.
Fast forward two years and many developers still haven't touched these products because they are avoiding Adobe's subscription-based licensing.
Adobe needs radically to change their corporate culture because a significant portion of the developers who would love to use their products are NOT going to start paying rent to even read the content they've created.*
* This sentence is a polite translation of "Adobe can go die in a fire."
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So you're claiming that Flash Player is a security threat and a vector for malware. Is that correct?
OK, the article is about developing apps and web content that don't use Flash Player, i.e. HTML+JS+CSS, C++, etc.
An IDE they mention, OpenFL is free and open source. Anyone can see the source code and check for any potential malware or exploits.
Installing native apps in your OS is a way bigger security and privacy risk than accessing web content and apps through a browser.
Even if you do publish apps for Flash Player, Flash Player is less of a security/malware threat than Apple Quicktime, Adobe Acrobat, and Javascript (JS usually tops the malware threat charts). In fact, Flash Player consistently falls low on the lists of security threats. Flash Player is iTunes' App Store and Google Play's biggest competitor. Where did you hear that Flash Player is a malware problem again?
BTW, has anyone mentioned that FlashDevelop http://www.flashdevelop.org/ is free and open source and supports multiple export/compiling formats?