“By the end of 2016, Google aims to switch Chrome users away from Flash in favor of HTML5,” Mark Wilson reports for BetaNews.
“Google says that by Q4 2016, it wants to make HTML5 the primary user experience. Flash support will still be built into the browser, but it will be disabled by default,” Wilson reports. “Ten sites, however, will be given a year’s reprieve.”
Wilson reports, “Google is choosing to make exception for the ten most popular sites that use Flash. The reason behind this decision is to avoid ‘over-prompting’ and to ease the transition to HTML5.”
The ten sites that will be granted a Flash extension are:
• YouTube.com
• Facebook.com
• Yahoo.com
• VK.com
• Live.com
• Yandex.ru
• OK.ru
• Twitch.tv
• Amazon.com
• Mail.ru
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The long good riddance begun by Steve Jobs continues.
SEE ALSO:
Apple just banned some versions of Adobe Flash from Macs – October 21, 2015
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
Haven’t had Flash for over a year now on my Mac or work PC, still got it on a VM in case of emergency.
Good riddance of bad rubbish
Sadly, a LOT of games sites still use Flash exclusively (e.g., Rummy-world.com). I wonder what they will do?
Of course, it does only say “off by default”. I guess people will just turn it on…
Some people with poor foresight can’t resist flipping on the stupid (bad-app-enabling) switch.
Death to Flash.
Weird that Google owned YouTube is on the white list.
Isn’t it under Google control to just HTML5 YouTube?
Legacy video
its about damn time. This also implies that Youtube would relatively soon block the uploading of flash vids.
Sadly, YouTube still uses Flash features as a default. Most specifically, any uploader can toss active Flash links onto their video for the user to use. ‘See my last video’. ‘See tomorrow’s video’. ‘See where I wrestled a polar bear and lost’. ‘See my funeral’. Etc. Flash is still entangled with a lot of advertising there as well. It’s going to take a mighty oracle from on high to deliver the word of the gawds that all Flash features are dead and shall remain forever in Hades.
Good. HTML5 will hopefully get more coverage in the game sites too, so when flash dies we won’t see “hey like so u gotta turn on ur flash to ply dis gme like omg” Lol. Besides that, who needs game sites when you have emulators? openemu FTW.