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

Posted by timothy on from the let's-call-the-next-one-burnination dept.

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.

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  1. A rose by any other name... by RavenLrD20k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A Rose by any other name still smells as sweet.

    Adobe Flash by any other name still reeks of shit.

  2. Ah, yes, a standard security technique. by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think I remember that from one of my computer-security classes. Sanitize all your inputs, do length checks to avoid buffer overflows, and if those don't work, change your product's name.

  3. headline and summary wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    they are not killing the flash name; the new version of their *creation* package is renamed to Animate from Flash Professional since it outputs HTML5 in addition to SWF; this is not related to the client side SWF ecosystem

  4. This Is The Authoring Tool, Not The Plugin by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're renaming the authoring tool, which is currently known as Flash Professional CC. It appears that the Flash Player will remain just that.

    This makes perfect sense, as Flash Professional CC is increasingly being used to generate media that targets HTML5, not Flash, as output. Renaming Flash Professional CC to Animate CC eliminates the whole need to do the song and dance of "we're talking about Flash the authoring environment, not Flash the plugin" to non-technical audiences.

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  5. Re:...would smell as shitty as any browser by Grishnakh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And yeah, there's NoScript... but that tends to limit the web's basic functionality.

    NoScript is a HUGE improvement, in my experience. However, it's also a big pain in the ass to use, so I wouldn't foist it on my wife's computer for instance. What works well is to set the selection to whitelist scripts coming from the site's own domain, but after that you have to get good at manually enabling other domains, usually ones with "cdn" in them since most big sites deliver videos and such from affiliated CDN domains. If that doesn't work, however, then you're resorting to guessing; there's been a few times I've just started up an alternate browser that doesn't have NoScript installed just to look at one site, but this is rare. For the most part, NoScript is really helpful and speeds things up a lot, but it's really not that easy to use because the situation with JavaScript is such an utter mess, with dozens of scripts on every page it seems.