“Adobe is finally ready to say goodbye to Flash,” Jacob Kastrenakes reports for The Verge. “In an announcement last night, Adobe said that it will now ‘encourage content creators to build with new web standards,’ such as HTML5, rather than Flash. It’s also beginning to deprecate the Flash name by renaming its animation app to Animate CC, away from Flash Professional CC.”
“Flash has been slowly dying over the past decade, in part due to an absence of support on smartphones [read “iPhones” and add “iPads” and “iPod touches,” too – MDN Ed.] and in part because it’s kind of become a scourge of the internet,” Kastrenakes reports. “Adobe is by no means doing away with Flash — that’s ultimately up to web developers. Instead, this announcement is more an acknowledgement of reality. ”
Kastrenakes reports, “HTML5 has been taking Flash’s place as the go-to tool for animation and interactivity; it’s an all-around better choice, and it’s an open standard.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take:
Flash must die. – MacDailyNews, February 5, 2010
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How to rid your Mac of the scourge: Uninstall Flash Player – October 16, 2015
Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability, and the only way to protect yourself is to uninstall Flash – October 15, 2015
Adobe’s bloated, insecure Flash must die – July 15, 2015
Steve Jobs posts rare open letter: Thoughts on Flash – April 29, 2010
Good, it’s been dead to me for years.
When even Viktor Frankenstein takes up a torch and pitchfork, you know the monster has really got out of hand
That is just great, but developers are slow to change to HTML5. Even Mac developers still use it. Unless Adobe stops supporting it, Flash will always be there.
Now that Adobe has retired the Flash tools and release HTML5 Tools, the conversion should go much quicker now.. Developers have no excuse now other than the work & cost to convert sites that are heavily Flash based.
I wish the NFL and NHL will listen are use .h264 for the Live games online. It’s the only reason Flash is installed on my Mac.
I feel bad for iHating Android Goople Drones. How can they entertain themselves if FLASH is gone? There are no more small mom and pops video stores to rent PORN! LOL 😛
And you’re the poster boy for tolerance? Wow! Just, wow!
The Web killed Flash. Flash started out as a great tool for building cross platform capable multimedia presentations. In fact, after you ignore all the “web centric” aspects, it still is. A single development environment that can deploy to Mac AND Windows with the same functionality and viewer experience. Maybe Adobe could strip out the Web stuff and make a true competitor to PowerPoint and Keynote?
I wish someone would tell the BBC.
I wrote an email to the BBC about Flash and asked them to change to HTML5. The answer back was surprising: they were going to be transitioning soon. I have even seen a BBC article asking if it was time to move from Flash to new standards. (this was about 2 months ago that I wrote to them)
And Netflix
Now if only Javascript would die a quick painful death.
I have to turn off Javascript in Safari on my iPad to make it useable, otherwise it takes forever to load ads that wash over my screen and make my interface non responsive.
Probably 95% of flash-based content out there is various embedded video with some pre-packaged, flash-based player wrapper. In other words, vast majority of it is essentially easily replaceable with HTML5 solutions.
The remaining 5% are full, out-right applications (large swaths of children’s sites with interactive games). This is an industry that won’t go away, and that simply can’t migrate to HTML5, since they need a proper development environment, and HTM5 isn’t one.
The one benefit of Flash was that it brought a pretty advanced programming language with a healthy feature set and true and complete cross-platform transparency. This is its curse too; in order to be truly cross-platform, it had to support only the lowest common denominator across platforms. All those Mac-only features that Apple kept bringing out in OSX after OSX were necessarily ignored, as they couldn’t be replicated on any other platform.
Migrating to HTML5 will be great for all those sites that use Flash as window dressing. Migrating online games to an alternative platforms, whichever they may be, is going to be a serious challenge.
I upgraded to Adobe CC on the announcement – finally a good reason. Now animations will be in demand again.
Hell just froze over.
Good, tell Amazon Prime (Flash wannabe Silverlight), HBO Go (OS X), Showtime Anytime (OS X) and others to get with the program and abandon these insecure, outdated and inefficient formats.
Adobe is telling people to stop using Flash
No. Wishful thinking. Great idea! But sorry. Flash lives on in Adobe Animate. Flash’s grave has not yet been dug, much as I have offered to help dig it.
What happened instead: Adobe has embraced HTML5. About bloody time, the mangy curs.