“Last week, Adobe announced it would dig a deep hole for its Flash Player, drop in the plug-in, and cover it with dirt by the end of 2020. So will end a technology that, in many ways, made the Web — even as users, security experts and browser makers took turns whacking it like a piñata at a six-year-old’s birthday party,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.
“‘We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020,’ Adobe said in a post to its primary blog,” Keizer reports. “The long lead time, the company contended, will give content makers time to complete the transition to Web standards, like HTML5 and WebGL.”
“ecause browsers have been the primary delivery vehicle for Flash content, how they handle the plug-in’s demise will be important to users and content creators alike,” Keizer reports. “Each of the top four browser makers — Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla — have, to greater or lesser degrees, explained how they’re going to sunset Flash.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Die, shiteous Flash, die!
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Steve Jobs posts rare open letter: Thoughts on Flash – April 29, 2010
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Steve Jobs: Adobe is ‘lazy’, Google can’t ‘kill iPhone,’ ‘Don’t be evil’ mantra is ‘bullshit’ – February 01, 2010
How HTML5 could finally kill Flash video – January 28, 2010
Gruber: Apple tablet likely won’t support Adobe’s Flash – January 08, 2010
Adobe issues critical security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player – July 23, 2009
Can HTML 5 kill off Adobe’s Flash, Microsoft’s Silverlight? – June 16, 2009
Apple’s QuickTime X the missing link for Adobe Flash on iPhone? [UPDATED] – June 16, 2009
Adobe releases Flash Player security patch – February 25, 2009
Adobe’s Flash still not iPhone-worthy – February 17, 2009
Don’t hold your breath for Apple’s iPhone to support Adobe’s Flash – November 21, 2008
Adobe to give away Flash for mobile devices – May 02, 2008
Adobe issues empty response to Steve Jobs’ statement that ‘Flash is too slow for iPhone’ – March 05, 2008
Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Adobe Flash not good enough for iPhone – March 05, 2008
Cringely: Don’t hold your breath for Flash on Apple iPhone, iPod touch, coming Apple tablet – December 07, 2007
Good riddance!
Next, can Apple buy Adobe? I can’t stand a Cie who doesn’t know what they’re doing, where they going and their only plan is to take the design industry in hostage with their CC only plan.
YouTube has been annoying me for awhile now since it won’t play videos until I disable Click To Flash. It didn’t use to do that, and I thought they were supposed to have switched to HTML5 a long time ago.
If you delete all traces of Flash on your computer, the videos play immediately without needing to click on such a button.
Un-be-lie-va-ble Adobe flash disgusting and shitiest piece of software still around today and yet for 3.5 additional years. Really deplorable.
Couldn’t come soon enough.
I’ve not installed it on my new iMac and I’ve not even noticed.