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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: aaronjb on 15 August 2012, 10:01:45

Title: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: aaronjb on 15 August 2012, 10:01:45

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/14/3241727/flash-for-android-dies

<evil laugh>

Title: Re: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: Lazydocker on 15 August 2012, 10:19:59

So it looks like Jobs might have been right then ::) ::)

Title: Re: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: Kevin Wood on 15 August 2012, 10:21:52

My heart bleeds for it. ;D

Title: Re: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: tunnie on 15 August 2012, 10:38:04

HTML5 is where its at, let the browser decide!

Title: Re: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: Kevin Wood on 15 August 2012, 11:39:19

Of course, the downside of this is that, after Flash inevitably dies a death, disabling unwanted bloat, adverts and gay "intros" from web content won't be as simple as just installing flashblock (or, better still, not installing flash in the first place).  :-\

Title: Re: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: feeutfo on 15 August 2012, 16:21:03

So the I.T. Industry gets another chance to come up with a standard?

Well let's just see shall we....

Title: Re: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: Rods2 on 15 August 2012, 16:32:22

HTML5 is meant to be getting better speed wise as a flash replacement, but how fast it is compared to flash is browser implementation dependent.

Title: Re: Flash! Aahhhhhh He'll save every .. oh, no, Adobe have canned it.
Post by: TheBoy on 15 August 2012, 20:34:35

Pretty sure adobe told devs about a year ago that flash on all platforms was being stopped?