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General Category => General Computing/Macintosh => Topic started by: xairbusdriver on July 25, 2017, 06:48:21 PM

Title: Flash has most of its "life support" disconnected
Post by: xairbusdriver on July 25, 2017, 06:48:21 PM
Adobe announces end-of-life plans, will stop distribution in 2020 (http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/07/25/flash-is-dead-adobe-announces-end-of-life-plans-will-stop-distribution-in-2020)
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Citing pressure from HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly, Adobe has announced that it will end development and distribution of Flash Player at the end of 2020, and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to open formats.
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Apple escalated its position against Flash last year with the launch of macOS Sierra. Adobe's plugin is disabled by default in Sierra's version of Safari, forcing people to manually activate whenever they encounter a webpage asking for it. Java, Silverlight, and even Apple's own QuickTime are treated the same way.
Should have happened 3 years ago, not 3 years in the future. [rolleyes2]
Title: Breaking their promise? (Re: Flash has most of its "life support" disconnected)
Post by: elagache on July 25, 2017, 11:50:47 PM
Dear X-Air and WeatherCat web spinners,

Quote from: xairbusdriver on July 25, 2017, 06:48:21 PM
Citing pressure from HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly, Adobe has announced that it will end development and distribution of Flash Player at the end of 2020,

Really?  I thought Adobe promised they would come up with some sort of compiler or interpreter that would convert existing flash applications to open standards?  Have they given up on this?  If so they are breaking a promise and that will make a lot of web context developers very unhappy.

Cheers, Edouard
Title: Re: Flash has most of its "life support" disconnected
Post by: xairbusdriver on July 26, 2017, 12:04:57 AM
If there are still web "devs" depending on Flash?, they should have known, almost since the first iPhone, that it's was not going to be a suitable, much less a "standard" format. [rolleyes2] Same goes for Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime. Proprietary (platform dependent) formats are not where the web 'wanted' to be nor where it is going. ThU32:-)
Title: Re: Flash has most of its "life support" disconnected
Post by: Blicj11 on July 27, 2017, 05:06:28 AM
I agree. Flash stinks, but there sure is a lot of it hanging around out there on web.
Title: Re: Flash has most of its "life support" disconnected
Post by: xairbusdriver on July 27, 2017, 10:09:27 PM
According to Google:
Quote from: TidBITS article
...Google has published Flash usage trends that show that only 17 percent of Google Chrome users encounter at least one page containing Flash content per day, down from 80 percent in 2014...
source:http://tidbits.com/article/17367 (http://tidbits.com/article/17367)
Title: News media still very heavily "Flash." (Re: Flash disconnected)
Post by: elagache on July 27, 2017, 11:07:20 PM
Dear Blick, X-Air, and WeatherCat web surfers,

Quote from: Blicj11 on July 27, 2017, 05:06:28 AM
I agree. Flash stinks, but there sure is a lot of it hanging around out there on web.

Quote from: xairbusdriver on July 27, 2017, 10:09:27 PM
According to Google:
Quote from: TidBITS article
...Google has published Flash usage trends that show that only 17 percent of Google Chrome users encounter at least one page containing Flash content per day, down from 80 percent in 2014...

The one industry that is still using Flash extensively is the news media (newspapers and broadcast.)   It is an industry in decline and probably hasn't the developer resources to easily make the conversion.  The Google statistics are probably an ominous sign: lots of users no longer see the need to consult mainstream news media sources to get the news.  This might be one of the reasons that fake news has become an epidemic.

Cheers, Edouard