Headline: "Adobe is telling people to stop using Flash"

Dec 02, 2015

This morning, my boss sent us a link to an article with a very headliney headline: "Adobe is telling people to stop using Flash."

Perhaps you saw Adobe’s announcement on Nov 30 about changing the name of Flash to Animate and a refocus of efforts to improve the security of Flash content. Bloggers have been announcing (and actively calling for) the extinction of Flash for quite some time ("A world without Flash," "Flash closer to extinction," etc.) while others admit that you just can't kill the beast ("Adobe Flash Is Dead in Name Only").

It's a little difficult to discern signal from noise in all this. What does this mean for Articulate Storyline and other leading authoring tools whose output is Flash? Does this change anything for us as designers/developers now? in the near future?

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8 years ago04/09/16 at 5:11 pm (UTC)

A SWF/HTML issue from another perspective ...

I have always looked upon Articulate products as perfect for scalable solution. Interactivity that could not be achieved in Presenter or frame based animations in combination with Storyline could be produces in other programs and embedded in the Articulate tool. Thus more complex content could be used when necessary.

I have tried to find information concerning this in the Articulate Community, but have not found any so far. Therefore I put my question here.

Is it possible to produce frame based animations and interactive parts in, for instance Adobe Animate, publish it from that program as HTML5 and then embed it into a Storyline production. The result should then show the animations, let the user interact whit it in a controlled way as is possible with imported swf inte Storyline today.

I would be most grateful for any advice concerning this matter.