Adobe Flash Decline

Discussions center on the deprecation and demise of Adobe Flash, its proprietary issues, performance problems, Apple's opposition especially on mobile, and the shift to HTML5 open web standards.

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icefox Mar 16, 2010 View on HN

Why would not supporting flash be bad?

MathCodeLove Apr 2, 2022 View on HN

There's too much Flash content on the web we'll never deprecate it

melling Oct 6, 2011 View on HN

Flash is a product by Adobe. It's not an open standard. Adobe is only one company with limited resources. It's time to uninstall it and move on.

clarky07 Oct 18, 2012 View on HN

seems unlikely it's flash. why would people still use flash?

ktRolster Feb 11, 2016 View on HN

It sounds like great progress.......until you realize that Google uses Flash everywhere in their own APIs

PhilWright Sep 6, 2010 View on HN

I am concerned that Flash is like Silverlight in being a black box inside the browser and some platforms (i.e. Apple) do not allow it to run on their phones. In the long run I might want a mobile version of the site.

dudus Feb 19, 2014 View on HN

Adobe Flash is only suited as fuel to burn in hell

somsak2 Oct 19, 2023 View on HN

*Apple killing Flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

ehutch79 Jul 16, 2021 View on HN

flash is not the open web. it was a proprietary plugin.

concerned_user Jul 13, 2015 View on HN

Simply because at that time both Google and Apple have banned Flash on their respective platforms, otherwise nothing would change.