Flash has most of its "life support" disconnected

[xairbusdriver]

Adobe announces end-of-life plans, will stop distribution in 2020

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.

[elagache]

Dear X-Air and WeatherCat web spinners,

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

[xairbusdriver]

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. Same goes for Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime. Proprietary (platform dependent) formats are not where the web 'wanted' to be nor where it is going.

[Blicj11]

I agree. Flash stinks, but there sure is a lot of it hanging around out there on web.

[xairbusdriver]

According to Google:

...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

[elagache]

Dear Blick, X-Air, and WeatherCat web surfers,

I agree. Flash stinks, but there sure is a lot of it hanging around out there on web.

According to Google:

...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