{"id":129033,"date":"2015-12-01T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/flash-isnt-dead-but-its-been-set-on-the-proverbial-ice-floe.html"},"modified":"2015-12-01T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:59:59","slug":"flash-isnt-dead-but-its-been-set-on-the-proverbial-ice-floe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/flash-isnt-dead-but-its-been-set-on-the-proverbial-ice-floe.html","title":{"rendered":"Flash isn&#039;t dead, but it&#039;s been set on the proverbial ice floe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s all to the good &#8212; Flash looked pretty, but it had performance problems, portability problems, security problems, and basically rendered swaths of the Web unsearchable. Good riddance.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2015\/12\/01\/adobe-joins-its-critics-tells-people-not-to-use-flash\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/LglzLpFGI66OP-Gej3AYSan0kakJwvSMy-jSzv_e71cZb1Uq-hSQ1Y99vhNNpUAgNYoz0DCusZYcLWwyff8XXp2BvLhgsL4eMr9bVb_1pc_lytInpLNReeDVTQNAF2o7jw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2015\/12\/01\/adobe-joins-its-critics-tells-people-not-to-use-flash\/'>Adobe Joins Its Critics, Tells People Not To Use Flash<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAfter 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 &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5L7a61Pix1b'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#39;s all to the good &#8212; Flash looked pretty, but it had performance problems, portability problems, security problems, and basically rendered swaths of the Web unsearchable. Good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/flash-isnt-dead-but-its-been-set-on-the-proverbial-ice-floe.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flash isn&#039;t dead, but it&#039;s been set on the proverbial ice floe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6993,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/16\/music_hark_redu.html","url_meta":{"origin":129033,"position":0},"title":"Music, hark (redux)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Nov-04 2:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hmmm. 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