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Title: Chrome 55 pushes Flash into the background Post by: HCK on December 07, 2016, 04:05:15 pm Chrome 55 pushes Flash into the background
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Chrome version 55 rolled out late last week and drove another nail in the coffin for Flash on the web. Google announced in August (https://blog.google/products/chrome/flash-and-chrome/) that Chrome 55 would default to HTML5 video instead of Flash (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106007/software/google-chromes-plan-to-kill-flash-kicks-into-high-gear.html), effectively blocking Adobe’s web plugin from running on most sites. The company has yet to confirm that Chrome 55 did in fact roll out defaulting to HTML5. We have asked Google for comment and will update this story should the company respond.</p><p> Part of the original plan (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3070676/data-center-cloud/beat-google-to-the-punch-make-flash-on-chrome-click-to-play-right-now.html), which actually reaches all the way back to May, was that Flash would be click-to-play on sites that were still exclusively using Flash, although a select number of sites would be “whitelisted” to use Chrome’s Flash functionality automatically. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3147284/software/chrome-55-pushes-flash-into-the-background.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Chrome 55 pushes Flash into the background (http://www.macworld.com/article/3147284/software/chrome-55-pushes-flash-into-the-background.html#tk.rss_all) |