I finally got around to publishing the Using Flex documentation donated by Adobe here:
https://flex.apache.org/doc/flex/using/index.html I fixed up a bunch of links, cleaned up the navigation a bit, and I also wrote a new introduction to replace the original "What's New in Flex 4.6" page. The intro now summarizes the content that Using Flex includes, and it provides a high level summary of the end of Flash Player and the continued maintenance of Adobe AIR by Harman. It'll be nice to have this content back up in HTML form so that search engines can crawl it and folks still maintaining old Flex apps can find some guidance! -- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC https://bowlerhat.dev/ On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM Josh Tynjala <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > So a while back Adobe removed the Using Flex documentation from their > website. At least for a while, they were redirecting to a PDF (they still > might, I haven't checked lately). However, the original HTML pages are long > gone. > > I happened to be looking at some old content on the Apache Flex > development mailing list, and I discovered this thread, "[DISCUSS] Flex Doc > Donation" where the Apache Flex project discussed accepting a donation of > the Using Flex documentation from Adobe: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/njqfyqtdttoyx2lybflfv07h9bfnp8s8 > > I found the vote result thread here, where the project agreed to accept > the donation: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/rlk4ro0gtxdrmbtxm1b77g0pzqv7kztm > > I also see that the content was committed into the "flexdoc" branch of the > apache/flex-site repo: > > https://github.com/apache/flex-site/tree/flexdoc/content/doc/flex/using > > It was never officially published on the actual Apache Flex website, > though. > > It would be nice to get that content back up on the web. Technically, most > of the original Adobe URLs are available from the Wayback Machine on > archive.org, but that's not really ideal. It's slow, and you can't find > anything from there on search engines. > > Question: Does anyone recall if any specific tasks were still _legally_ > required to prepare this content before publishing it on the Apache Flex > website? Or was it mostly just cleaning up formatting and stuff like that? > > Either way, I'd like to get it done, just to make this resource available > again. While there probably aren't a ton of devs still working on Flex > projects anymore, there are definitely still some. I was just contacted by > one the other day looking for a little guidance. It would be nice to have > Using Flex available on the web for those few who still might benefit from > it. > > -- > Josh Tynjala > Bowler Hat LLC > https://bowlerhat.dev/ >
