Flash (software)

E30049

authoring tool browser plugin discontinued software multimedia software platform proprietary software runtime environment

Flash (software) is a now-discontinued multimedia platform used for creating and displaying interactive web content, animations, and browser-based games and applications.

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All labels observed (22)

Label	Occurrences
Adobe Flash Player	7
Adobe Flash	6
Adobe Animate	4
Adobe Flash platform	2
Flash	2
Flash MX	2
Flash Player	2
Adobe Flash Player plugin	1
Flash (software) canonical	1
Flash 5	1
Flash 8	1
Flash CS3 Professional	1
Flash CS4 Professional	1
Flash MX 2004	1
Flash Professional CC	1
Flash Professional CS5	1
Flash Professional CS5.5	1
Flash Professional CS6	1
Flash runtime	1
FutureSplash Animator	1
Macromedia Flash	1
SWF file format	1

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	authoring tool ⓘ browser plugin ⓘ discontinued software ⓘ multimedia software platform ⓘ proprietary software ⓘ runtime environment ⓘ
acquisitionBy	Adobe Inc. ⓘ surface form: Adobe Systems
acquisitionOfDeveloperYear	2005 ⓘ
browserVendorResponse	major browsers began blocking Flash content by default ⓘ
category	animation software ⓘ multimedia software ⓘ web browser plugin ⓘ web development software ⓘ
competingTechnology	CSS Level 3 modules ⓘ surface form: CSS3 HTML5 ⓘ JavaScript ⓘ WebGL ⓘ
contentDistribution	Flash content embedded in web pages via <object> or <embed> tags ⓘ
developer	Adobe Inc. ⓘ surface form: Adobe Systems Macromedia ⓘ
discontinuationDate	2020-12-31 ⓘ
endOfLifeActions	blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player after January 12 2021 ⓘ
endOfSupportDate	2020-12-31 ⓘ
fileFormat	.air ⓘ .as ⓘ .fla ⓘ .flv ⓘ .swc ⓘ .swf ⓘ .xfl ⓘ
formerName	Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: FutureSplash Animator
initialReleaseYear	1996 ⓘ
license	proprietary license ⓘ
majorVersion	Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash 5 Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash 8 Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash CS3 Professional Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash CS4 Professional Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash MX Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash MX 2004 Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash Professional CC Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash Professional CS5 Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash Professional CS5.5 Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Flash Professional CS6
notableCompanyPolicy	Apple refused to allow Flash Player on iOS devices ⓘ
notableImpact	enabled widespread browser-based games in the 2000s ⓘ popularized rich Internet applications before HTML5 ⓘ
notableSecurityEvent	frequent critical vulnerabilities reported by security researchers ⓘ
notSupportedPlatform	iOS ⓘ
primaryUse	creating animations ⓘ creating browser-based games ⓘ creating interactive web content ⓘ creating rich Internet applications ⓘ
reasonForDecline	emergence of open web standards ⓘ lack of mobile support ⓘ performance issues ⓘ security vulnerabilities ⓘ
renamedTo	Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Adobe Animate
runtimeComponent	Adobe AIR ⓘ Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Adobe Flash Player
scriptingLanguage	ActionScript ⓘ
standardizationStatus	not an open standard ⓘ
successorSoftware	Flash (software) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Adobe Animate
supportedContentType	audio ⓘ raster graphics ⓘ text ⓘ vector graphics ⓘ video ⓘ
supportedPlatform	Android (via Flash Player) ⓘ BlackBerry OS ⓘ surface form: BlackBerry Tablet OS Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ surface form: Microsoft Windows macOS ⓘ web browsers via plugin ⓘ
supportsStreaming	RTMP streaming ⓘ progressive download video ⓘ
typicalWorkflow	author content in Flash authoring tool and publish to SWF for Flash Player ⓘ
usedBy	browser game portals in the 2000s and early 2010s ⓘ online video sites in the 2000s ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Flash (software)
Description of subject: Flash (software) is a now-discontinued multimedia platform used for creating and displaying interactive web content, animations, and browser-based games and applications.