By Ian Hollidae, 2026/02/06

I admit to being someone who had no idea that Flash (Adobe Animate) was still around. I remember working on a few Flash/gaming projects in the mid-aughts, mainly as back-end web support. I thought the whole thing was wasted on creating terrible ads when it had the potential to be a successful embedded application container. We know how it all turned out.

Nowadays, HTML5 Canvas, along with SVG and Javascript, can do a lot of what Flash/Animate did back in its heyday. When you add in Three.js and X3D, you have to wonder what all the noise was about. Still, we should tip our hat to the fact it lasted this long with plenty of passionate support. A lot of other technologies will only wish it had it so good.

Tags: Graphics