I just learned about #Ruffle (https://ruffle.rs/), a Flash emulator written in Rust that works in modern browsers!
And before anyone starts to complain about this, to this day, there's still a ton of amazing interactive content on the internet that we lost the day Apple decided to stop supporting Flash. Now we can bring it back, for old times' sake!
Know what's funny, YEARS ago I switched from #Firefox to #chrome because Chrome ran Flash content and thus YouTube at the time better
I've been moving to Firefox but hadn't yet on my streaming desktop until we started playing Flash games (via #Ruffle). What made me finally switch is the games ran terrible in Chrome but well in Firefox.
@davemark@wklj The site uses #Ruffle now, a #Flash emulator built in #Rust. It's not perfect, but it works reasonably well. They also uploaded a lot of their videos (and occasionally upload new ones) on YouTube to homestarrunnerdotcom, though some #EasterEggs are missing. If you want to indulge your nostalgia on Mastodon, there is the Homestar Screens bot @grapenuts_robot, which shares random screens from the series, though it lacks #AltText. #OnionBubs! #OnionBubs!
As much as I like Ruffle, I really gotta say I'm disappointed it took flash shutting down for development on flash emulators to even kick into proper gear.
In a proper world, Adobe should have been made to develop an official flash emulator before ending support.