I would already be interested in how Adobe can make the flash player no longer play SWF. For new versions this might work, but I don't think older versions have this functionality yet. Thus I assume that older flash plugins should still work, and equally that running in the Flash Projector should still work.
However Adobe will no longer support Flash Plugin downloads, recommend uninstalling, and there will be security updates for all OS which effectively removes the browser plugins. Again, Flash Projector should stay unaffected, right? Also, in any case I believe that Adobe Air stays unaffected by this as well - and it's terribly easy to migrate a Flex Web Application to a Flex Desktop Application with Air. Does anybody know whether any of the EOL actions also apply to the Air runtime? kind regards John -- John-Paul Cunliffe Dorothea-Schlegel-Straße 20 61130 Nidderau 015161510016 On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 11:58 AM Mike Thompson <mike.thomp...@day8.com.au.invalid> wrote: > > > On 2020/12/03 05:39:59, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I notice on [1] it states this: > > In December, Chrome 55 will make HTML5 the default experience, except > for sites which only support Flash > > > > Which I assume means a URL ending .swf? > > > > And on [2] it states: > > Since Adobe is no longer supporting Flash Player after the EOL Date, > Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning > January 12, 2021 to help secure users’ systems. > > > > If this is correct? If so that give a very limited window for "sites > which only support Flash” to work. > > > > Does anyone know anything different? > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > 1. https://blog.google/products/chrome/flash-and-chrome/ > > 2. https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html > > I'd be very interested in any insight into this ... > > My current (developing) understanding is as follows: > 1. Chrome will block loading the Flash plugin (1-Jan-2021) > 2. Even if somehow loaded, the Flash player will not load swf. > (12-Jan-2021) > > Regarding point 1, as I understand it Chrome (Chromium?) calls home to get > a list of out-of-date, unacceptable/blockable plugins. And from 1/1/2021, > this list will contain all versions of Flash. So that means Chrome will > not load the plugin. > > Regarding point 2, as I understand it, Adobe wants to cover itself because > it is no longer doing security updates, so it wants to stop any Flash > content from running on its players. > > > Our problem is that we have an intranet-ish Flex app which runs within > Electron and a local pepper flash player via DLL (ie. not downloading > Flash). And we thought we were safe from the apocalypse. We have suddenly > woken up to the fact that we are not, and that our application is just > going to stop working. > > It seems the only solution is to licence an alternative Flash plugin from > Harman (?sp)? > > Does anyone have any other work around or insights? > >
