Celebrating the death of a once-dominant media format is all very well, but as cultural heritage organisations shouldn't we also be thinking about how to save the best stuff that was made in Flash? As well as being a poor way of making 'interactive' websites, some great creative and experimental work has been created in Flash. Shouldn't we be selecting what's worth keeping, finding a way to preserve it, and then making it accessible to the public? Or is this a job not for individual museums, but for the Museum of Dead Media Formats?
Danny
> On 18 Sep 2015, at 14:49, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> So Flash is dead, or at least in a ditch, slowly taking a last breath..
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> One of many articles...
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> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/24/adobe-flash-dying-amazon-google-chrome
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> The question is - what replaces it? If you've got some in-depth stuff you want to show - mechanisms in old objects, how guns fire, zooming into clock workings - ...how?
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> Is it WebGL? Is browser compatibility good enough? Is the capability there? Is it fast enough? Ok on mobile?
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> Or... video?
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> Or is the whole "interactive" thing a thing we need to re-think?
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> Any good examples, thoughts....?
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> Mike
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