<story><title>Petition to open source Flash</title><url>https://github.com/pakastin/open-source-flash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarym</author><text>So much hate for Flash.  Yes it has regular security holes, is CPU hungry and a lot of people used it to create some mightily annoying things....&lt;p&gt;But Flash was a gift from the gods back in the early days of IE and most people forget that. If you wanted to make some HTML look nice you had little more than the dreaded &amp;#x27;blink&amp;#x27; tag to work with.&lt;p&gt;If it weren&amp;#x27;t for Flash I doubt we&amp;#x27;d have anywhere near as advanced CSS, SVG, Canvas and HTML5 bells and whistles that designers can actually use now.&lt;p&gt;I doubt Adobe will open source it though.  They probably know there&amp;#x27;s a whole heap of other security issues in it that&amp;#x27;ll get found and exploited as soon as they release it.  Your average user won&amp;#x27;t be able to patch fast enough!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riffraff</author><text>I had browser games in flash that worked, now I have unity games that don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I honestly wish we&amp;#x27;d stuck with flash.</text></comment>
<story><title>Petition to open source Flash</title><url>https://github.com/pakastin/open-source-flash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarym</author><text>So much hate for Flash.  Yes it has regular security holes, is CPU hungry and a lot of people used it to create some mightily annoying things....&lt;p&gt;But Flash was a gift from the gods back in the early days of IE and most people forget that. If you wanted to make some HTML look nice you had little more than the dreaded &amp;#x27;blink&amp;#x27; tag to work with.&lt;p&gt;If it weren&amp;#x27;t for Flash I doubt we&amp;#x27;d have anywhere near as advanced CSS, SVG, Canvas and HTML5 bells and whistles that designers can actually use now.&lt;p&gt;I doubt Adobe will open source it though.  They probably know there&amp;#x27;s a whole heap of other security issues in it that&amp;#x27;ll get found and exploited as soon as they release it.  Your average user won&amp;#x27;t be able to patch fast enough!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>&amp;gt; They probably know there&amp;#x27;s a whole heap of other security issues in it that&amp;#x27;ll get found and exploited as soon as they release it.&lt;p&gt;So wait until 2020, after all major browsers have dropped support for it. No reason to worry about vulnerabilities in software that nobody&amp;#x27;s using in production anymore. If anyone still cares, they can always fix the security problems themselves.</text></comment>