What is a good hobby friendly replacement for discontinued Flash Player by Adobe?
I need to remove the Flash Player stuff from my website.
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Like Gunrunner said, HTML5 is your friend.
You might also investigate WordPress as the engine upon which to rebuild the entire site. It has become the 800 pound Gorilla when it comes to building web sites. The OGR site is done in WordPress.
I have about a dozen web clients for whom I do site design, maintenance and development. I use WordPress on all of them.
John and Rich, thanks much for the information. Now, all I have to do is rebuild my site using html5. Temporarily, i will just use my video software to convert the flash player stuff to mp4 as I run into it during updates, Or delete the flash stuff.
The updates are on hold until I reset my Run Room Trackside Industries table after the neighbors had their 4 year old grandson here Sat. and test the stalled Big Boy to get it running again.
As a former IT guy I shed not a tear over Flash being killed. It was the target of so many hacker attacks it was near impossible to ever feel secure having it on machines.
Funny thing when the iPhone came out, Steve Jobs/Apple was lambasted for not letting Flash on it. In the end he was correct. It was nothing but a security hole
@Susan Deats posted:John and Rich, thanks much for the information. Now, all I have to do is rebuild my site using html5. Temporarily, i will just use my video software to convert the flash player stuff to mp4 as I run into it during updates, Or delete the flash stuff.
Susan,
Google Web Designer is a free web editor for Flash to HTML5 conversion.
John
@cbojanower posted:Funny thing when the iPhone came out, Steve Jobs/Apple was lambasted for not letting Flash on it. In the end he was correct. It was nothing but a security hole
The man was God. He was correct about everything.
On the other hand if that's all it was (a security hole) then how did it display video?
It was indeed poorly written, and definitely not written with the future in mind, but it worked for years and years. At the time it was released, and for many years afterward. What better solution was there at the time?
Mike
