A message to uninstall Flash appears above a Flash-based work of art by Rafaël Rozendaal titled "Future Physics," from 2007. (Screengrab by Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times) It was a tale of ...

The labs project lets designers use a timeline to set how elements move around a Web page, fade in and out, and transform in shape. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Adobe Flash helped bring the Internet to life with slick graphics, games, animation, and apps, but its days are numbered: Adobe announced today that it’s rebranding Flash Professional CC as Animate CC ...

On December 31, Adobe’s Flash will shutdown. This comes as no surprise, since its demise was announced in 2016, and browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari have already disabled it by default. Less ...

As the Internet Archive explains, Flash emerged (alongside Shockwave) in the early 1990s amid a need for animation, sound, and greater audio/video flexibility in webpages. "Flash had many things going ...

My earliest memory of Flash was that it got me into trouble. I had heard about a website that hosted brutal games, including one particularly difficult shooter starring an audacious yellow alien. I ...

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, most people will need to visit a digital museum to relive cartoons such as Homestar Runner and Peanut Butter Jelly Time or their favorite early web-based tower ...

I just wrote an editorial complaining about sites that run java and JavaScript and require Flash animations to work. Reader Kevin Szabo noticed the editorial and sent ...

The way I do it is, when I have seen the animation on a website, I go into the temporary internet files folder and find the animation I want and copy it out. I dont think you can run them from the ...

Macromedia, the maker of the popular Flash tool for Web animations, is courting search engines in a bid to raise the visibility of Flash-created content, which is frequently passed over in Web indexes ...

Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. By most margins, Adobe’s Flash is ...