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BluePikmin11R
Joined: Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:11 pm Posts: 1593 Location: Springdale Country:
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Currently Playing: SSF2
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I've come back to the forum for a short while to bring some potentially bad news. I was looking over my social feed today when I see this article here: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/25/1602 ... pport-2020 | | | | Quote: Adobe is finally planning to kill off Flash once and for all. Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari have all been blocking Flash over the past year, but Adobe is now planning to remove support for it fully by the end of 2020. “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats,” explains an Adobe spokesperson.
A number of gaming, education, and video sites still use Flash, and Adobe says it remains committed to supporting the technology until 2020 alongside partners like Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Microsoft says it plans to disable Flash by default in Edge and Internet Explorer in mid to late 2019, with a full removal from all supported versions of Windows by 2020. Google will continue phasing out Flash over the next few years, while Mozilla says Firefox users will be able to choose which websites are able to run Flash next month and allow Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) users to keep using Flash until the end of 2020. Apple is also supportive of the 2020 end of life for Flash, and Safari currently requires explicit approval on each website even when Mac users opt to install Flash.
2020 will mark an end of an era for Flash, but one that feels like it has been a long time coming. HTML5 standards have been implemented across all modern web browsers, and the need for Flash just isn’t there anymore. An end to Flash will bring with it obvious improvements in security and just pure battery life on laptops and other mobile devices that still support the web technology. | | | | |
So for SSF2 developers? Will this become a problem? Or is this nothing to worry about. I don't know much about Flash Player myself, but this is concerning.
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:26 pm |
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Steven
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Don't worry, by 2020 I'll be finished with college and have a full-time day job as a teacher.
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:49 pm |
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Utah P. Teasdale (Harr)
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Joined: Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 2880 Location: ...if you bougth this cd you have been cheated... Country:
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Considering that Flash is actually very useful, I'm sickened by this news, though I suppose I should have seen it coming.
But how many things are going to be lost forever because of this? How many web pages that will no longer or can no longer be updated be made inaccessible? Think through your damn implications, companies!
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:04 pm |
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Bedoop
Joined: Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:06 pm Posts: 1104 Location: Bedoop!#7875 Country:
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MGN Username: Bedoop
Currently Playing: Rayman Origins
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here lies newgrounds h*cking rip
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:49 pm |
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Bedoop
Joined: Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:06 pm Posts: 1104 Location: Bedoop!#7875 Country:
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If Full-Version SSF2 releases before 2020 I will be very pleasantly surprised
_________________Stay groovy, wherever your travels take you.
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:57 pm |
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Danny
Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:12 am Posts: 2932 Location: The Schwarzwelt Country:
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Welp, here's a toast to the Library of Alexandria that is known as the world of flash games
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 2:39 pm |
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Sonario
Joined: Wed May 29, 2013 5:15 am Posts: 2481 Location: The MG Discord Country:
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Assuming this means the game will be finished, won't it mean the end of online play as well considering there's no support? Also, considering the inability to update, does this officially deconfirm user created content?
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:37 pm |
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Steven
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No it was just a joke because either or by 2020 I won't have time to work on the game anymore anyway
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 4:18 pm |
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bunq
Joined: Wed May 31, 2017 9:54 am Posts: 109 Country:
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Adobe air is not being discontinued.
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Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:47 pm |
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Gudako's Insanity
Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:51 am Posts: 647 Location: Smug Island, with all Smug Anime characters
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Great, we all need Macs now just to play SSF2. RIP
_________________black keys will be removed in the future anyways *sniff*
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Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:26 am |
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Utah P. Teasdale (Harr)
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In all seriousness, since the home version is contained in a .exe, independent of any browser plugins, that will be fine. But the browser version will probably have to be discontinued.
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Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:09 am |
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Danny
Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:12 am Posts: 2932 Location: The Schwarzwelt Country:
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No one plays the browser version anyway
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Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:07 am |
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Gudako's Insanity
Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:51 am Posts: 647 Location: Smug Island, with all Smug Anime characters
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I need to play the broswer version in school lmao
_________________black keys will be removed in the future anyways *sniff*
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Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:58 pm |
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tay
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Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:58 pm |
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darkrinorex
Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2014 3:05 am Posts: 308 Country:
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Hopefully if you have or can get a USB, you can download/install ssf2 on the USB and use it at school without having to go on browser. But only thing is, i'm not sure if you would still need to install it at any computer at the school even though you have it installed on the USB.
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