Record Flash a long and painful death: once prosperous where are the information-Flash,Adobe-IT
Many people have had and is closely related to Flash, this is a Adobe under the rise of multimedia platforms. But to say that its origin, it also must go back to the 90 's of the last century, a company called FutureWave Software. FutureWave developed a software called SmartSketch, facing the Windows or OS x platform, used to draw vector graphics, but never for sale.
FutureWave was acquired by Macromedia, we are familiar with many of the products the company behind it is it. Core of the SmartSketch was known as FutureSplash Animator, was later renamed Macromedia Flash 1.0. It consists of two parts: graphics and animation editor, and Media Player.
Boom
Flash development faster in the period between 1996 to 2005. Both Java,RealNetworks,QuickTime,Windows Media Player, all of the media players on the installed capacity is far less than it.
Macromedia Flash's attention to services and improvement continues to invest more to promote its growth, the large number of features, the most famous of all MovieClips. In these years, the Flash from a media creation tools into a network platform, and this is also our most impressed about it.
The year 2005 can be said to be most brilliant Flash. After the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia, will Flash,Dreamweaver,Director/Shockwave and Authorware merged together. Some of these projects, especially Dreamweaver, now still is a professional community depends.
Later in the period, Adobe continues to develop Flash, making it into a suite of applications, eventually becoming a platform based on network, including video, music, games and much, much more. Many computers have Flash pre-installed, so networks can access them directly.
However, by 2007, Flash Empires is subject to strong shock-even if that Adobe themselves were unaware of the change is coming.
Steve's curse
Steve jobs, Apple's CEO in June 2007, announced to the world the iPhone, a cell phone in his mouth is not only a more media player devices. More importantly, it can also be a Web browser. Features the iPhone has a lot of energy, especially for 3G and the arrival of the 3GS, was in the hands of millions of users by the energy released.
Unlike the first version of Android or Windows Mobile, iPhone OS (later familiar iOS) do not support Flash. "I would like to write down some ideas on Adobe Flash, we hope that customers and critics are better able to understand why we do not allow Flash on the iPhone, iPod and iPad running on. "Jobs in the spring of 2010 in the famous long after the Flash I see, wrote, and presaged the eventual death of the platform.
Steve jobs on Flash the complaining, including its ownership, its negative impact on battery life, its notoriously bad record on security, there are many sites (even then) has replaced the video format it.
"New mobile standards such as HTML will be on mobile devices (PC) win. "Jobs concluded. "Perhaps, with its busy criticizing Apple-bound forward, Adobe should focus on build quality of HTML5 tools for the future. ”
These text even if reading is still highly relevant today and a good explanation of the wound around the lack of Flash for many years, the security risk, performance and battery life of these defects are particularly deadly.
Google up knife
Despite the early Android still support Flash, but Google has long been a Flash skeptics. The opposite of it on Flash and Apple, and in 2015 all its Youtube videos into HTML5 format. Google has also launched a tool Swiffy, can convert Flash to HTML5.
Swiffy service started last year, has recently been closed by Google. "Today, more and more consumers are choosing the HTML5-compatible network environment, rather than the Flash environment. "The company said in an official blog post explains. In other words, because no one uses Flash, so this conversion tool will no longer be needed.
Continuing this trend, Apple recently announced the next generation of Safari. As part of the macOS Sierra, native deprecated in Flash (and some other Web formatting). Google Chrome browser already has a similar action. Of course, Microsoft through Edge browser is speed up Flash's departure.
Mobile games
Flash did not immediately quit the stage of history, of course, it's still there, is now being used most often in the mobile gaming platforms, because they have a lot of choice. Many of these games very high popularity, like angry birds and the AdventureQuest, and of course we are particularly familiar with the fleet of the Collection.
Flash platform was, and still is, some of the earliest website presence and one of the reasons of the prosperity. The site's primary audience is the desktop computer users. Many of today's online games and videos are still based on Flash, and still has hundreds of millions of people enjoying this experience.
Benefit these website there are many giant, Facebook is the most typical. Yet even it, and Flash has a crush. "Is Adobe announced Flash die," company head of security Alex Stamos wrote on Twitter. "Now no one wants to spend time rewriting tool to upgrade to HTML5, because they want to Flash is always there. We need a date of death that drives them. ”
Conclusion
Indeed, there are many technical defects on the Flash platform--it has been a long time ago Steve Jobs pointed out--and this format does not support mobile platforms, because the mouse is not the primary means of input on this platform. "Flash is designed for PCs and mice, are not suitable for touch-screen and fingers," jobs wrote. "Even if the iPhone, iPod and iPad support Flash, still fails to solve most of the Flash sites needs to be rewritten to support touch-screen equipment problems. ”
Flash died a long, and painful, and even today still not really over. However, this is really great platform to drive the development of the early World Wide Web. Future will eventually be HTML5, it applies anywhere, but not controlled by anyone-just like the Web itself.
记录Flash漫长而痛苦的死亡：曾经繁华今何在 - Flash,Adobe - IT资讯
很多人都曾和Flash密切相关，这是一个在Adobe公司手下兴起的多媒体平台。不过要说它的起源，那还得追溯到上世纪90年代，一家名叫FutureWave Software的公司。FutureWave开发了一款名叫SmartSketch的软件，面向Windows或OS X平台，用来绘制矢量图形，但却从未发售。
FutureWave后来被Macromedia收购，我们熟悉的许多产品其背后的企业就是它。SmartSketch的核心部分被称为FutureSplash Animator，后来被重新定名为Macromedia Flash 1.0。它由两部分组成：图形及动画编辑器，以及媒体播放器。
蓬勃发展
Flash发展得最快的时期是在1996年到2005年之间。无论是Java，RealNetworks，QuickTime，Windows Media Player，所有的媒体播放器在装机量上都远不及它。
Macromedia对Flash服务的重视和持续投入改进更加促进了它的增长，在大量的功能中最为有名的莫过于MovieClips了。在这些年中，Flash从一个媒体创造工具转型成为了一个网络平台，而这也是我们对它最深的印象。
2005年可以说是Flash最辉煌的一年。Adobe收购Macromedia之后，将Flash，Dreamweaver，Director/Shockwave和Authorware合并在了一起。这之中的一些项目，尤其是Dreamweaver，如今仍被专业社区所依赖。
在之后的时间里，Adobe继续开发Flash，使得它变成了一个应用组成的套件，最终成为了基于网络的平台，涵盖视频、音乐、游戏和很多很多。许多电脑都预装了Flash，让网络可以直接访问他们。
然而时间走到2007年，Flash帝国即将受到强烈的震撼——即使是Adobe自己当时都没有意识到巨变将至。
乔布斯的诅咒
史蒂夫·乔布斯，苹果公司的CEO，于2007年6月向世人公布了iPhone，一款在他口中不仅仅是一部手机，更是媒体播放器的设备。最重要的是，它还能是一个网络浏览器。这个特性让iPhone具备了无穷的能量，尤其是未来3G和3GS的到来，让这些能量在万千用户手中释放了出来。
不同于安卓或Windows Mobile的第一版，iPhone OS（后来就是我们熟悉的iOS了）并不支持Flash。“我想在这里记下自己关于Adobe的Flash的一些想法，希望我们的顾客以及批评家们能够更好地理解为什么我们不允许Flash在iPhone, iPod和iPad上运行。”乔布斯之后于2010年春季在那篇著名的长文《Flash之我见》中这样写道，预示了这个平台的最终死亡。
乔布斯对Flash抱怨连连，包括它的所有权性质，它对电池续航的负面影响，它在安全性上臭名昭著的不良记录，还有许多网站（即使是那时候）都已经更换了视频格式这个事实。
“HTML等移动时代的新标准会在移动设备上（以及个人电脑上）取得胜利。”乔布斯最后总结道。“或许，与其忙于批评苹果义无反顾地大步向前，Adobe更应该专注于为未来打造优质的HTML5工具。”
这些文字即使在今天读来仍然十分中肯，而且很好地解释了缠绕着Flash许多年的那些不足，安全风险，降低性能和续航时间这些缺陷尤为致命。
谷歌补刀
尽管早期安卓仍然支持Flash，但谷歌长期以来都是Flash怀疑论者。它和苹果一起站在Flash的对立面，并在2015年将旗下Youtube上所有的视频都转为了HTML5格式。谷歌还推出了一种工具Swiffy，可以将Flash转换成HTML5。
Swiffy服务去年开始启动，近日已经被谷歌关闭。“今天越来越多的消费者选择了兼容HTML5的网络环境，而非Flash环境。”该公司在官方博文中解释说。换句话说，因为不再有人使用Flash，因此这个转换工具也就不再被需要了。
继续着这个趋势，苹果最近公布了下一代的Safari。它作为macOS Sierra的一部分，将原生弃用Flash（还有一些其他的网络格式）。谷歌Chrome浏览器也已经有了相似的动作。当然了，微软通过Edge浏览器更是加速了Flash的离场。
移动游戏
当然Flash并没有马上退出历史舞台，它仍然存在，如今被运用得最多的是在移动游戏平台上，因为它们目前也没有很多的选择。很多这样的游戏人气极高，比如《愤怒的小鸟》、《AdventureQuest》等，当然还有我们特别熟悉的《舰队Collection》。
Flash平台曾经，而且现在依然是，一些早期的网站存在和兴盛的原因之一。这些网站的主要受众是桌面电脑用户。如今的许多在线游戏和视频都仍然基于Flash，依旧有数百万计的人享受着这些体验。
这些受益的网站里不乏巨头，最典型的是Facebook。然而即使是它，也不再对Flash抱有好感。“Adobe是时候宣布Flash寿终正寝了，”公司的安全部门负责人Alex Stamos在推特上写道。“现在没人愿意花时间重写工具升级到HTML5，因为他们希望Flash永远存在。我们需要一个死亡日期去驱动他们。”
结语
确实，Flash平台上存在许多技术缺陷——这在很久以前就已经被乔布斯指出了——而这个格式不支持移动平台，因为鼠标并不是这个平台上最主要的输入手段。“Flash是为个人电脑和鼠标设计的，并不适合触屏和手指，”乔布斯写道。“就算iPhone、iPod和iPad支持Flash，还是不能解决大多数Flash网站需要重写，以便支持触屏设备的问题。”
Flash的死亡漫长，而且痛苦，即使到了今天仍然没有真正结束。然而，这个伟大的平台确实真真正正地驱动了早期万维网的发展。未来最终将会是HTML5的，它适用于任何地方，却不被任何人控制——就像网络本身一样。