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by timw4mail 2672 days ago
Shockwave !== Flash.

Confusing, yes, as Flash was sometimes labeled as Shockwave Flash.
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Wowfunhappy 2672 days ago
The article says they're also discontinuing normal Adobe Flash.

In addition, everything I said applies to Shockwave as well, albeit to a lesser extent.

(Also, what the heck is with that confusing name? It made troubleshooting a Shockwave issue quite annoying a couple years back, because all my searches for "Shockwave" turned up results related to "Shockwave Flash".)

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basch 2672 days ago
The article literally says that Flash will not be discontinued.

>Adobe continues to offer a rich set of content creation tools through Creative Cloud, including Adobe Animate CC for authoring interactive content for multiple platforms, such HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR and others.

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Wowfunhappy 2672 days ago
I'm not sure why they mentioned Flash in that press release. I suppose Adobe technically "continues to offer it" as of right now.

Scroll down a little further. There's a subhead titled "Adobe Flash marked for retirement as well"

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basch 2672 days ago
Well color me surprised. That's flippin silly.
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