Jason, Thanks for the tip!
The Flash Player Projector works even for an *interactive* SWF like the Specific Heat Simulator. (I was worried that it being called a "projector" meant it was only for simple movie-like Flash.) It's a bit tricky to download an SWF, as Firefox (currently) replaces the SWF file by Adobe's "drop dead" notice. But one can download the actual SWF from the URL (which Firefox still displays) via something like CURL. So, in case somebody needs one, I downloaded all the available "projectors" (plain and debug, for Linux, Windows, and OSX). -P P.S. It may be that "all the major education platforms migrated", but another Flash simulation from the course I mentioned was hosted at some university in India. That's unlike the Specific Heat Simulator, which is apparently hosted at some individual's site (although it was originally created by a US university). On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:47:01 +0000 Jason Jackson <jasonjack...@sd44.ca> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I work in education. All the major education platforms migrated, it's just > these personal projects that have been left abandoned. I have a workaround > that's outside of the scope of Firefox, but I thought it'd be worth sharing > here. > > Adobe offers the "Flash Player projector", a portable utility for playing > Flash files. Because it's portable, even if the student isn't an > administrator of their computer, they can download and run it. > > https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html > > Then the teacher just needs to provide a link to the Flash file. I've used > your example below. If you got IT involved, they could deploy Flash Player > projector to all student computers and associate Flash files (.swf) to it so > they open automatically. > > https://www.sciencegeek.net/VirtualLabs/heat_metal.swf > > ----------------------------------------- > Jason Jackson > Computer Network Engineer > North Vancouver School District > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Enterprise <enterprise-boun...@mozilla.org> On Behalf Of Paul Kosinski > via Enterprise > Sent: December 30, 2020 11:41 AM > To: enterprise@mozilla.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Fwd: Suggestions for hiding the > horizontal bars at the top of the browser? > > If the Flash plugin itself stops working, this is going to be hard on some > "remote learning" situations. There are some universities that have used > Flash to provide virtual laboratory experiments (e.g., > https://www.sciencegeek.net/VirtualLabs/SpecificHeatLab.html from Iowa State > University). Unlike those with big budgets, such as YouTube, Netflix, TV > networks and VMware, the people who made these simulations might not have the > money to upgrade to HTML5. _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to enterprise-requ...@mozilla.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"
