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Internet => Web Browsing & Email => Topic started by: RayW on May 16, 2016, 08:18:46 PM

Title: Google to block Flash in Chrome and default to HTML5
Post by: RayW on May 16, 2016, 08:18:46 PM

Google have announced they intend to effectively drop Flash by the end of 2016 - apart from ten white listed sites ...

http://betanews.com/2016/05/16/google-disables-flash-in-chrome/

Title: Re: Google to block Flash in Chrome and default to HTML5
Post by: kitz on May 16, 2016, 10:12:47 PM

In a way its sad.  I know there were issues with Flash, but I shall fondly remember the days of Flash games - particularly the P'n'C (point and click) ones which I used to be a big fan of.    Websites then were hardly boring and there were some fabulous creations.   Today's websites look very bland in comparison most all following similar responsive designs and wordpress like :(

Title: Re: Google to block Flash in Chrome and default to HTML5
Post by: Chrysalis on May 16, 2016, 10:56:17 PM

minimalist and responsive designs, website design gone back 20 years.  All for the sake of smartphones.

Title: Re: Google to block Flash in Chrome and default to HTML5
Post by: loonylion on May 17, 2016, 12:09:21 PM

Quote from: Chrysalis on May 16, 2016, 10:56:17 PM

minimalist and responsive designs, website design gone back 20 years.  All for the sake of smartphones.

and accessibility for disabled people. Flash based sites are horrible in that regard.

I have never had flash installed on this PC, I don't miss it.