RIP Flash
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RIP Flash
The last ever update for Adobe Flash was released Tuesday. Support ends 12/31, and, if you don't uninstall it, the player will block any content starting 1/12/21.
It will be interesting to see how many sites haven't bothered converting to HTML5, even through Adobe started encouraging the switch 5+ years ago.
It had a good run. But it was time. Actually, long past time.
It will be interesting to see how many sites haven't bothered converting to HTML5, even through Adobe started encouraging the switch 5+ years ago.
It had a good run. But it was time. Actually, long past time.
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Thank God! It wasn't good from Day 1 and Adobe didn't seem to know or care about making it good any time since then.
Laughably, a few of the Continuing Education websites our office uses were still requiring Flash even as late as this month. I've just told them we can't run it here and they scratch their heads.
Laughably, a few of the Continuing Education websites our office uses were still requiring Flash even as late as this month. I've just told them we can't run it here and they scratch their heads.
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Thank God! It wasn't good from Day 1 and Adobe didn't seem to know or care about making it good any time since then.
Laughably, a few of the Continuing Education websites our office uses were still requiring Flash even as late as this month. I've just told them we can't run it here and they scratch their heads.
Laughably, a few of the Continuing Education websites our office uses were still requiring Flash even as late as this month. I've just told them we can't run it here and they scratch their heads.
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Thank God! It wasn't good from Day 1 and Adobe didn't seem to know or care about making it good any time since then.
Laughably, a few of the Continuing Education websites our office uses were still requiring Flash even as late as this month. I've just told them we can't run it here and they scratch their heads.
Laughably, a few of the Continuing Education websites our office uses were still requiring Flash even as late as this month. I've just told them we can't run it here and they scratch their heads.
It should keep me busy for the next year advising on the upgrade process
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Hopefully this will speed some of our VMware updates. Some of our older servers still only support the flash version of vsphere (or worse, the old client).
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This is a big problem in education, non-flash versions of the courseware exist but the publishers are gouging for it.
My sister's school has just been screen capturing some of the lessons rather than pay for the upgrade.
My sister's school has just been screen capturing some of the lessons rather than pay for the upgrade.
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The last ever update for Adobe Flash was released Tuesday. Support ends 12/31, and, if you don't uninstall it, the player will block any content starting 1/12/21.
It will be interesting to see how many sites haven't bothered converting to HTML5, even through Adobe started encouraging the switch 5+ years ago.
It had a good run. But it was time. Actually, long past time.
It will be interesting to see how many sites haven't bothered converting to HTML5, even through Adobe started encouraging the switch 5+ years ago.
It had a good run. But it was time. Actually, long past time.
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I'm guessing Adobe doesn't want to be on the hook for any possible future security issues that are found, hence the update that explicitly kills itself?
Anyway, Flash was pretty nice for some of the earlier popular internet games and such, so I do feel nostalgia for it. Not sure keeping it around is worth the security/maintainability nightmare, though.
Anyway, Flash was pretty nice for some of the earlier popular internet games and such, so I do feel nostalgia for it. Not sure keeping it around is worth the security/maintainability nightmare, though.
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