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Google killing Flash by having Chrome default to HTML5 by end of the year
In May, Google circulated a draft proposal to effectively kill Adobe Flash by blocking the plugin and prioritizing HTML5 by the end of the year. The company is going ahead with that plan to “de-emphasize” Flash with a staged disabling of the plug-in through multiple versions of Chrome. Starting with Chrome 53 — currently in beta — in September, background Flash elements, like page analytics, will be blocked. Google notes that today 90% of the plug-in loads in the background and is used solely for things like analytics. This move is designed to encourage publishers and sites to switch over to HTML5 equivalents...
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Isn't it rather sad that quite a lot of the internet, I mean sites and their admins, don't follow that trend? Even though it's a matter of computer-safety not to use Flash? The trend of turning away from Flash is already going on for several years. Not that it's my business of course, all those people going somewhere else to find what they want or need.