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I heard that Flash will be shut down in 2020.

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March 16, 2018
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I heard that Flash will be shut down in 2020. After that, will Flash-created content become unavailable on the web after that? There are a lot of Flash learning contents created by our school. After 2020, do we have to convert all of them to other languages like HTML5? And do you know exactly when the service is finished?

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This is the official Adobe announcement. It links to related announcements by each of the major US browser vendors. I would strongly recommend reading all of them in order to understand any potential impact to your customers or products.

Flash & The Future of Interactive Content | Adobe Blog

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keithshawns

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This is bad news for those sites who almost relayed on flash stuff, mostly those flash games which millions of users browse and play every month. Especially sites like Scratch, they will be having a lot of modification work after adobe gonna remove the support.

Robert Mc Dowell

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don't worry, there are still billions of computers using Flash/Actionscript, so be sure that there will be always a solution to continue to enjoy our favorite web development, it's just a good mutation, meaning plugin concept will transform in such better standard way....

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keithshawns

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It means Adobe is going to provide a similar service as flash?

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There is some discussion and disagreement. While it is possible for new solutions to be built with different technology, nobody is yet saying what this technology will be, and what work Flash developers need to do. 2 years is not long in a development cycle, and some say that Flash Plugin availability is likely to stop much sooner. And of course you already lock out the phones and tablets that many, perhaps most students now expect to use (Mac and Windows is what old people use, I've heard). So give serious consideration to converting Flash based sites: not in 2 years, but now.

Robert Mc Dowell

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you are targetting public users and forget companies, corporations, enterprise and developers who will never reprogram everything, especially when the application is stable and run since years. You won't force companies to invest and pay a new development when their application work since years and work well. There is no equivalent today to flash, html5/javascript lacks in features like multicast, cross-browser and OS problems, version etc... Change a browser version for company that manage thousands computer is always an ordeal and expensive task. So keep in mind that the web is not to reinvent the wheel every 10 years, but rather

optimize what's existing already. Flash is part of this cycle. the shape changes, not the code which will continue to work.

and btw, I really prefer to develop in actionscript that javascript.

Robert Mc Dowell

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As long as people will use it, flash will still continue, as other languages. The plugin concept is ending, not the code made by millions developers. So anyone is invited to imagine and create how SWF can be embeded in an HTML page without plugin. webassembly can be one solution.

mariom85255604

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But why they must do it?,this is truely a evil injustice. I wont let them to do whatever they want to do,just only for pure selfishness and arogance. We must stop this.

Robert Mc Dowell

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maybe jump a step to offer better

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