Adobe on Tuesday announced that Flash is dead, but not until the end of 2020. This will presumably give any developers still using the technology to move to another platform.
As a user of Apple devices, the big question is, what does this mean for me? The simple answer is nothing. iOS has never supported the use of Flash, so iPhones and iPads will continue to work as they always have. You will be able to view the same content on your devices that you always have.
It really won’t affect Mac users either. Much of the Web content has moved away from Flash in past decade, and Flash hasn’t been pre-installed on the Mac since 2010. Even if you did install Flash, Safari required you to explicitly authorize it before it would run.
Of course, it was in 2010 that Steve Jobs wrote his Thoughts on Flash that caused a major stir in the industry. The fact is, Jobs was right in everything he said.
Adobe said it is working with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Each of those companies have posted their thoughts on the news.
Killing Flash is a good thing. The Web will move to more open standards, allowing everyone to see content without using proprietary technologies. Flash had its day, but it’s time to move on.
Mozilla’s link is https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2017/07/25/firefox-roadmap-flash-end-life/
Finally!
Finally! An apt use of “finally.”
I remember some truly spectacular Flash-based websites back in the primitive HTML 4.x days. Could never embrace Flash as a platform, though.
Lat year it was Bowie and Prince, this year it’s Flash and Windows Phone… I’ll take it.
Ding dong, the witch is dead…
Unpossible. He’s in the new Justice League movie.
Now Oracle needs to kill Java please.
There were indeed some pretty animated UIs. I specifically remember one of them that killed my MacBook’s battery within a few minutes. At a client meeting. Good times.
FWIW, I wasn’t sorry to see the last of Silverlight, either. I wonder how traditional tv networks will adapt their crappy browser-based streams.
Here’s looking at YOU Amazon.
Ayup. Couldn’t remember the last time that particular choice had been presented to me.
I spent three years of a CS degree unable to use my laptop as a truly mobile computer thanks to pretty Flash-based courseware. Ah, memories.
I thought applets were already dead.
Java on the server will live longer than you or I will.
Truer words were never said.
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Pfft, no, that’s just a kid in a dumb metal suit.
A bit rich, Steve Jobs complaining about proprietary tech.
Am I missing something?
What are all the autoplay video ads running?
Aren’t YOU special!
…finally
Sadly enough!
Just like Graham, sad.
Something that ACTUALLY WORKS, without getting everything it touches munged-up beyond belief, meanwhile soaking-up gobs more megabytes than should be necessary!
then how would I, as the user, computer owner, stop all autoplay. None of the Mozilla add-ons stop very many.
Personally, I want flash back. Flash was easy to block on websites. Whatever they are using now is harder to kill than a cockroach.