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“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

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Re: “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

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I have seen a massive downtrend in flash use already. Is there anyone building building new and serious projects in it now?

It used to be bundled with Chrome somehow so if you really needed it, you had it. Now I just don't use it. If something requires Flash then well, too bad for me.

Re: “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

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I have seen a massive downtrend in flash use already. Is there anyone building building new and serious projects in it now?

Turner Classic Movies streams in Flash. Not sure how long that tech has been in use, I only started streaming it recently.

Re: “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

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> will be phased out by the end of 2020. At that point, Adobe will stop updating and distributing Flash.

Adobes stance on backwards compatibility in Flash has always been "Don't break the web". Where does this leave all the existing flash content that still exists around the web after 2020? As far as I know, those JS emulators are way to slow for most content.

Re: “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

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I have seen a massive downtrend in flash use already. Is there anyone building building new and serious projects in it now?

It used to be bundled with Chrome somehow so if you really needed it, you had it. Now I just don't use it. If something requires Flash then well, too bad for me.

Still is bundled with Chrome.

Re: “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

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What about Adobe Connect? They have been talking about moving to HTML5 for years, but nothing seems to happen. Then recently they announce that if you don't have Flash you can instead download an executable:

https://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2016/02/add-in.html

Could this be the end of AC, or will they pull something out of a hat at the last minute?

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