After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: From January 2016, Adobe Flash will be renamed to 'Adobe Animate CC', killing one of the most unfortunate names in web security as the company pushes the product further and further to HTML5 output. Adobe's release about the update, which will form part of the annual Creative Cloud upgrade, states that a third of all material output from the program is now HTML5. The transitional HTML5 Adobe animation program Edge Animate will be replaced by the renamed Flash product.

Comments

Re:Ah, yes, a standard security technique.

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, they left in the "Adobe" part.

So pointless...

[EmeraldBot]

20 years is a long time in our world. Many readers here had just gotten their first jobs, and many weren't even born yet (or so behavior hints to me). Windows 95 had just come out, 9.5 times better than what we have today. Emacs vs VIM was all the rage, and a year later came out a fledgling desktop environment known as KDE. Java was something you drank, your printer probably made this awful, "SCRRRRRRRRRRR" sound as it punched your pages with ink ribbons, and your CIA/BND/M15/whatever were still cool guys in suits (nowadays they're just guys in suits).

Adobe's held this name for a really long time, and it's a huge shame they're going to dump the name on its deathbed. We all know what "Animate CC" still is, and it's not a C compiler. Least they could have done would have been to let Flash die with dignity...