Flash is now officially dead for real

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Are you sad and/or angry Flash is gone?
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Mr. Smile Face Hat: Sep 15, 2003; Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Flash, ahaaa, savior of the universe!

https://youtu.be/LfmrHTdXgK4

# ¿ Jan 13, 2021 14:33

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 22:36

Mr. Smile Face Hat: Sep 15, 2003; Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Breetai posted:

Crosspostin' from SHSC:

So work is deploying SAS VIYA later this year, but in the meantime we rely on SAS VA, which relies on Flash.

As a stopgap, we are using the Harman browser, which is a browser package provided by a Samsung subsidiary that provides a Flash-enabled browser that is supported beyond Flash's end-of-life. It's a little basic, but it works.

...except for an interesting wrinkle. The length of a URL that you can paste into the browser's address bar is limited by the physical width of the address bar.

As in; if the length of the URL as represented on one continuous line of text is greater than the width of the address bar on the screen, any text beyond it will be cut off.

If the line of text is about two monitors wide and the browser is fullscreen, you'll get about half of the url. If you resize the browser horizontally to take up half of a screen then you'll get about a quarter of the url. If you have a side-by-side dual monitor setup and stretch the browser across both screens, you can then paste in the whole URL.

A direct link to a SAS VA report can have a VERY lengthy URL.

It's poorly designed in such a amazingly specific way.

What on earth is an SAS VIYA or SAS VA? I thought SAS that was a Scandinavian airline.

In any event, Adobe had announced many, MANY YEARS ago that they'd stop supporting flash and any system still requiring this is an anti-pattern that points to awful quality or support. Any company not being able to plan for this is crap.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2021 10:33

Mr. Smile Face Hat: Sep 15, 2003; Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Colonel Cancer posted:

Oh no flash is back!

"It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under"

-Flash

# ¿ Jan 15, 2021 05:11

Mr. Smile Face Hat: Sep 15, 2003; Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge,
I'm trying not to lose my head

-Also Flash

# ¿ Jan 15, 2021 05:15

Mr. Smile Face Hat: Sep 15, 2003; Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Milo and POTUS posted:

Flash owned sorry. Waaaah security concerns boo loving hoo.

It�s still running well on my windows for workgroups.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2021 03:44

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 22:36

Mr. Smile Face Hat: Sep 15, 2003; Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Bula Vinaka posted:

Timebombing the code was a lovely thing for them to do.

You already posted this twice, thanks!

I don't see the problem if a harmful old poo poo product isn't supported anymore and the company who made it does everything to inform everyone years in advance that it will be unsupported after a certain point in time and will turn itself off.

What makes me really mad is that my so-called "smart" phone cannot run Windows 3.0 and print ASCII art to my MX-80 dot matrix printer using a Centronics cable. Assholes!

# ¿ Jan 28, 2021 12:28

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