Comment by jsheard
2 days ago
For context, although Flash Player died a long time ago, the editor lived on in "offline" 2D animation workflows where the end result is rendered out to video. Lots of kids shows are still made with it, and at least some anime studios use it (e.g. Science SARU).
> although Flash Player died a long time ago
They still maintain it for China actually: https://gitlab.com/cleanflash/installer
Why?
https://www.gameslearningsociety.org/why-does-china-still-us...
> Although the Flash Player app formally reached its end of life on December 31, 2020, Adobe has allowed a local Chinese company to continue distributing Flash inside China, where the application still remains a large part of the local IT ecosystem and is broadly used across both the public and private sectors.
Sounds like too many big institutional websites depend on Flash.
Apparently at least one railroad needed it to route trains https://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/2023/11/27/flash-railroad...
Adobe Animate also has HTML5 export features.