Adobe is finally killing Flash. Finally.Adobe is sun-setting Flash, it's once popular, empowering content platform that long ago became an anchor around the neck of the web.
Adobe's Flash, like Microsoft's Active-X, once filled a critical gap in web technologies. Once that gap no longer needed filling, though, Flash went from being progressive to regressive. Now, finally, Adobe is letting Flash wind down.
From Adobe, on the long, slow wind-down:
Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.
From Apple, who saw this most obvious of futures earlier than any of its competitors or critics, via it's open source WebKit project:
Adobe has announced it will stop distributing and updating Fla...
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Adobe is finally killing Flash. Finally.
