


Adobe Flash is not just not good enough for that. Internet users spend more time on their smartphones and less time at their desktops/laptops.

This is called universal support and it is one of the main reasons it can no longer be supported in a cost-effective way. Universal SupportĪdobe Flash Player cannot perform well on mobile devices (smartphones and tablets). In about a year desktop browsers will also stop supporting it for the benefit of universally applicable HTML 5 Canvas format that is overall much more efficient. It has now been more than a year since smartphones stopped showing Adobe Flash Player elements in browser. It is tough to built into different complex frameworks, especially on mobile. Since Adobe Flash player have security loopholes that are difficult to avoid, integrating its components in modern web and mobile systems also come with a price.Īdobe Flash Player also drains smartphone battery very quickly. These are security flaws that can be used to corrupt, infect, and even take down a website or some part of its functionality. HTML 5 allows much faster and overall better functionality features.ĭevelopers call security gaps loopholes. What are the Reasons?įlash Player is not secure enough and it is also difficult to use and develop for on mobile phones and iPads. It was becoming harder and harder to maintain Adobe Flash Player as integrated in modern web functionality with JavaScript and HTML. The technology, although great in the past, has simply outlived itself. What is Happening?Īll major browsers Mozzila Firefox, Google Chrome, Edge, and Safari announced that they will switch off the default support of Flash Player by the end of 2020. What about them? There need to convert their content to HTML 5.Īs soon as this info came, some of our clients started to inquire about converting the content of their websites to HTML 5 Canvas. Yet, as of this time there are more than 41 000 websites with embedded Adobe Flash Player functionality in US alone. The technology has become obsolete and have no place on the web anymore.

Adobe Flash Player support will end this year in December.
