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melm00se

(4,989 posts) Mon Sep 9, 2019, 07:45 AM Sep 2019

Adobe/Chrome

https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/

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Adobe/Chrome (Original Post) melm00se Sep 2019 OP

That's old news. Dr Hobbitstein Sep 2019 #1

Steve Jobs rejected Adobe Flash for the iPhone and YouTube switched to HTML 5. hunter Sep 2019 #2

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)

1. That's old news.

Reply to melm00se (Original post)

Mon Sep 9, 2019, 08:35 AM

Sep 2019

Even Adobe has dumped Flash. They no longer update it.

hunter

(38,309 posts)

2. Steve Jobs rejected Adobe Flash for the iPhone and YouTube switched to HTML 5.

Reply to melm00se (Original post)

Mon Sep 9, 2019, 10:26 AM

Sep 2019

At best Flash was a big hairball of proprietary code and Digital Rights Management schemes that was difficult to secure and maintain.

Curiously, China demanded it's own version of Flash so Adobe partnered with a Chinese corporation to adapt it to the Chinese version of internet censorship and government supervision. Other versions of Flash are disabled in China.

Occasionally I run into Flash animations on old, archived science sites.

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