Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Kanta]

18/11/2020
Via Jean-Michel Jarre Official Store
Autumn Sale Now On - New Items Coming Soon: https://jean-michel-jarre-eu.myshopify. ... tions/home

[Dr_Jones]

Yeah, I got an email about it too.

[Jote]

Is "Summer Sale" in November a thing? ;>

[Dr_Jones]

It is summer in the Southern hemisphere

[Dr_Jones]

I'm happy this topic is still around. I was looking through the incarnations of the official JMJ sites I've archived since 1997, it's been a few: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005 (this one I have not complete), 2007, 2008 (I like this one, the Oxygene skull), 2010, 2014, 2016 and the one we have now. I might have forgotten some. I noticed I missed the one between 2016 and now, but luckily the web.archive.org site has it. Not much difference, except the navigation being on top instead on the left of the site.

I'm planning to do an "exhibition" of these sites one day. One problem is that the sites from 2007 and up use Flash and Flash has been shut down by Adobe and none of the webbrowsers support it now. This means these website incarnations cannot be viewed anymore. A shame. I'm reading things about plugins that will try to run Flash, but I don't know if this will be future-proof.

[shadow]

I'm honestly still really surprised that there's no legacy support for Flash whatsoever. I get that development would stop, but would it really kill them to at least have some support for it?

[Dr_Jones]

I'm honestly still really surprised that there's no legacy support for Flash whatsoever. I get that development would stop, but would it really kill them to at least have some support for it?

It's a combination of security leaks (Flash is notoriously bad), lack of support from Apple and performance issues. In the light of preservation it's not good. There are people who are busy making a Flash player plugin for FF and Chrome.

[Finaero]

Yeah, Ruffle project is one of them:
https://ruffle.rs/

(As now used by the legendary Homestar Runner website)

[shadow]

I'm aware of the leaks and (these days) lack of support, but some legacy support should've been invested in. Instead they completely pulled the plug and so much stuff is most likely lost from now forever. Forever a shame.

[Adam]

I am using Ruffle uploaded on a website of mine to run flash games, it does however run quite slow on a few games and won't work at all on some but at the moment it is still in development.
If it is uploaded on a website there is no need for users to install a plugin, just upload the files to a directory on your server & then paste a script onto the pages where there are instances of flash & just edit the script to point to the path where you uploaded the Ruffle files.

[Kanta]

Update on the official website:
https://jeanmicheljarre.com/
https://www.grammy.com/news/living-lege ... -interview

[Kanta]

Update on the official website:
https://www.jeanmicheljarre.com/

[Richard-Eastham]

There's an amazing new image added to the Place de la Concorde concert page, an art poster in the style of the China Concerts. Anybody know where this is from and why/when it was produced?

So pleased the website has been updated and fresh (accurate!) photos have been added to the Live pages. His legacy deserves a great website but it's always been a bit hit and miss.

[Dr_Jones]

There's an amazing new image added to the Place de la Concorde concert page, an art poster in the style of the China Concerts. Anybody know where this is from and why/when it was produced?

It was an ad in Billboard magazine:
http://vientdemee.blogspot.com/2014/03/ ... board.html

[Finaero]

Looking at the PLD page, man, there should have been (and there should be) more footage from this angle

https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/647f437 ... 0Final.jpg