Even Adobe, which owns the technology, is telling people to use HTML5 for animations, and is taking Flash off the name (and default output) of its animation product.
That's all to the good — Flash looked pretty, but it had performance problems, portability problems, security problems, and basically rendered swaths of the Web unsearchable. Good riddance.
Originally shared by +Les Jenkins:
Adobe Joins Its Critics, Tells People Not To Use Flash
After years of critics piling on top of Adobe Flash for its track record as one of the buggiest, crashiest (now a word), least secure, most vulnerable pieces of software ever to hit the web, Adobe …
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…And then they renamed Flash to "Adobe Animate CC"
They renamed the authoring package to remove the Flash name, and will be emphasizing HTML5 development with it.