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Persiusx
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May 16, 2016
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Google plans to start blocking Flash in Chrome this year

  • May 16, 2016
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Flash's death has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow. Google has detailed plans to start blocking most Flash content with Chrome, with the change targeted toward the end of this year.

Under its current vision, nearly every website would have Flash content blocked by default. Visitors would still be able to enable Flash content on a site-by-site basis, but they would have to specifically choose to do so. Chrome would display a prompt offering to enable Flash; if chosen, Chrome would remember to run Flash on that site for all future visits.

Google plans to start blocking Flash in Chrome this year | The Verge

This is MAJOR... Anyone else worried about this? What does Adobe / Captivate respond back to this? I couldn't find anything online. Even though we have HTML5 courses, a lot of them have required builtin SWF widgets that would definitely need to still work. Thoughts...

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TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
May 16, 2016

Not worried at all. They started sandboxing it a while back.

We use system checks also and if the system is not compatible we display instructions on how to enable non-compliant sections.

Persiusx
PersiusxAuthor
Participating Frequently
May 16, 2016

The system checks you speak of.. any links you can provide me to easily set this up?

TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
May 16, 2016

Well it wasn't easy and I custom built it. It involves SCORM also. Not really something I would just want to give away.