FINALLY - Adobe will kill flash in 2020

[King_of_Oz]

Finally,

 

In 2020, Adobe will kill flash, flash player, and everything related.

 

Article: https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-kills-flash-web-browser-tech-2020/?ftag=CAD-03-10aaj8j

 

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Flash loses final appeal: Adobe sentences its web tech to death

The pioneering software paved the way for YouTube and countless games, but Adobe will kill Flash in 2020.

 

 

in recent years, most notably by Apple's Steve Jobs and also by Adobe itself. Now, though, there's a date for the funeral: Dec. 31, 2020.

 

 

"I am glad Adobe is ending Flash's life. It has honestly made the web a worse place for more than a decade," said Creative Strategies analyst Ben Bajarin.\

 

 

What's it mean for me?

For the time being, you'll have to jump through some hoops to play Crush the Castle. In the coming months, depending on what browser you use and how it's configured, the Flash phase-out could be anything between no biggie and a serious problem. Some games will stop working. Schools and businesses that rely on Flash-based instruction modules will have to move into the future. Some websites, especially old ones that are no longer updated, might stop working.

Today's workarounds all will break on mainstream browsers by the end of 2020. Here's a rundown of what you can expect:

• Chrome: Google's browser began asking us for permission to run Flash on some websites last year, and it'll do so more often and later disable Flash by default. "We will remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020," Google said.
• Firefox: Mozilla's browser will start asking you in August which sites you want to enable Flash on, it'll disable Flash altogether by default in 2019, and there will be lingering support through the end of 2020 only in Firefox's less frequently updated Extended Support Release.
• Edge: The newest version of Microsoft's browser uses a click-to-run option that asks if you want to run Flash on a website, a policy that will continue through mid-2018. The company's older Internet Explorer browser won't give you any grief. In mid-2018, Edge will be more aggressive about requiring you to authorize Flash. In 2019, Microsoft will disable Flash by default, and by the end of 2020, Microsoft will disable it completely in both browsers.
• Safari: Last year, Apple's Safari started blocking Flash from running. If you really want it, you can re-enable it on websites that offer to download Flash, an action Safari notices and that will give you an offer to run Flash for the site.

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Browsers have begun telling websites they can't load Flash content. This is one such error message. In Chrome, you can click to run the Flash game, but Google will disable it totally by 2020.

Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET

Facebook, which hosts lots of Flash-based games, urged programmers to get with the program so ordinary folks don't have to suffer through any of these problems. "While games built in Flash will run on Facebook until the end of 2020, we strongly advise developers to follow the timelines set by browsers," Facebook said in a blog post.

 

 

Potential WAN show topic, @LinusTech ?

 

 

Thoughs, anyone? I personally think this is a good thing, as it will push web devs to move to more efficient platforms such as pure HTML, etc...

 

[PianoPlayer88Key]

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Edited July 25, 2017 by PianoPlayer88Key

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

REPOST, sorry mate.

 

 

[King_of_Oz]

1 minute ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

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Just now, JohnnyCorporalTech said:

REPOST, sorry mate.

 

 

CRAP. Sorry mods, didn't know. WHEN WILL I BE ON WAN SHOW. It's one of my life goals.