In recent years, Adobe's Flash technology has become a constant headache for the company that is also behind Photoshop. The software necessary to reproduce content in this format was the subject of a large number of criticisms last year due to the large number of vulnerabilities that turned our computer, whether it was PC or Mac, into a drain for friends of others, which it forced him to release new updates over and over again by patching the same ones, but soon new ones were discovered. Adobe has just announced that in 2020 it will stop supporting this technology.
Adobe has been forced to permanently kill Flash due to the fact that the main browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari have begun to block all content designed in this format, so that only manually and at the request of the user the content can be reproduced. In the Adobe statement we can read:
We will stop supporting and distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020, so we kindly ask content creators to start migrating their content in this format to other options available on the market.
Currently a large number of gaming websites, with educational content and even videos use Flash, but before 2020 they will be forced to use other options, among which is HTML 5, the new standard that is being implemented in all web pages and that it is compatible with all browsers available on the market.
With this language you can create the same content type as with Flash technology, but with a much lower weight, which allows web pages to load much faster, which consumes the battery of devices mobiles where it runs, one of the main reasons iOS has never supported Flash.