Adobe Flash will die by 2020, Adobe and browser makers say
by MARK HACHMAN
Sep 04, 2017
2 minutes
Adobe Flash, one of the most controversial elements of the web, will be phased out by 2020, Adobe said recently. Browser makers, including Microsoft and Google, simultaneously announced plans for a gradual phaseout over the next few years.
Adobe said that enough progress had been made within open web standards like HTML5 that it was time to phase out Flash. “Adobe and Macromedia provided innovation. “By the end of 2020, we firmly believe that all of these required media capabilities and standards will be widely deployed and natively available to customers within browsers.”
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