Instead of killing Flash, we should save it for posterity

Adobe has decided to launch Flash Player in 2020, but not only has important implications in Internet history, Flash also contains a lot of content that we probably won't want to leave.

Everyone knows that Flash has become extremely bad and obsolete compared to new technologies like HTML5. It was also destined for departure in 2020. But developer Luha Lindstedt believes that instead of burying Flash completely, we should save it to keep rich treasures of websites, games, and projects on the ground. Very creative web using Flash in its golden days.

Lindstedt sent a petition to Adobe to bring Flash into an open source format, from which people can fix bugs, continue to keep good things in Flash.

This idea is not to reintroduce Flash to modern browsers, but to make sure that we still have access to Flash-based content - either on a separate browser or in a simulator. to run the .SWF file format.

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Flash contains rich resources of content such as games, websites .

The problem with this plan is that Flash contains a lot of security bugs - 316 vulnerabilities were reported only in 2015. Fixing them to get a secure version will require a huge amount of work, to the extent that The smartest brain at Adobe can't solve it either.

There are many great projects built on Flash and worthy of being saved for the next generation, for Internet history researchers, experts or design lovers, including the originals of many auto games. -runner has been extremely popular like Canabalt or test sites like Dont Click.

If you have the same opinion with Lindstedt, you can sign your petition by typing the source code repository on GitHub at this address.https://github.com/pakastin/open-source-flash