Club Penguin Rewritten and Flash
As some of you may know, the Adobe Flash Player will be reaching its commercial end of life in December 2020. With it gone, many Flash-based things will become inaccessible if not preserved. Some websites have developed their own native players for Flash content, others have began transitioning their Flash content to a more secure and flexible protocol known as HTML5.
For a while now, many people like myself have been wondering what the future of Rewritten holds without Flash. Today, Stu answered that question with a blog post you can read here.
Too long, didn’t read? Worry not! Here’s a summary of what the article contained:
Club Penguin Rewritten is planned to move to HTML5.
In addition to being more secure, HTML5 is also much more optimized than Flash. You’ll notice better performance across the board.
Preliminary testing for a HTML5 based Rewritten is currently ongoing.
The test is publicly available to join. If you want to preview what Rewritten will be like running through HTML5*, follow the link in the article and sign-in with your regular credentials.
*This is a testing phase, and as such is not wholly representative of what the final build will be. There are many bugs which need to be ironed out.
And that’s that! Here’s to the future!