On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Linda Walsh
FLASH=SVG+JAVASCRIPT in a proprietary format. HTML5 has both and suitable replacement tech.. and flash has definitely had more than it's share of problems compared to other plugins.
I can hardly wait to see Flash gone. I think the message being sent by Google, Mozilla, and Facebook (and rather caustically by Steve Jobs in 2010) this week is not really for Adobe's consumption to actually "set a date". But rather it's putting content creators on notice that their web sites are going to break on a regular basis if they depend on Flash because Adobe simply isn't keeping the lid on Flash's security. I don't see Adobe actively killing Flash or setting a date. They still make money from it. And until that stops, they will continue to keep it available. I could see Mozilla and Google treating Flash similar to SHA 1, 1024 bit certs, and SSLv3 and setting a series of scale back dates: warnings, then disabled by default, then more dire warnings, then preventing it as running on the basis that it's a malware enabling platform.
Acrobat, I'm sure, is another format on the kill list, as soon as there is a standardized encapsulated doc format suitable for replacing it
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