It will be the end of the Flash Player?

Report · May 17, 2016

Hello,

I am Flex programmer and indirectly I have suffered each day with an instability of the plugin Flash Player , and Adobe worst of silence about it . Every day we rely on programmers of this plugin we get discouraged and sad about what is happening and we can not do much. Not even defend the technology because adobe is not interested does not advocate nor manifests.

Today I came for an answer and I leave here registered my indignation , studied FLASH years I specialized in FLEX currently develop in Flex and AIR but to rely on Adobe solutions is a sudden everything might end up ? Adobe think of the hundreds and thousands of programmers who every day see technology that loves die and nothing can you do , how many people are dependent on it and has no answer. My apps are for hospitals and clinics , I can not and do not want to migrate to HTML5 for dozens of reasons. Help me to keep believing in you.

Report · May 17, 2016

Eduardo12fox exellent idea, the ADOBE could create a browser own it and enter with force in this fight, because the HTML5 features never compared with the FLEX force. Still I go further, if not the interest of the ADOBE make a new browser, then put the flash player as open source, so the community can continue and force the current browsers react.

Report · May 17, 2016

What's the question that you would like an answer to?

Report · May 17, 2016

If Flash Player still has another 5 years of life ahead. Because I have lot project for FLEX and I´m dependent of Flash Player

Report · May 17, 2016

We don't have clear visibility into what changes the browsers will or won't make in 2021. At the end of the day, we don't own the browsers. We continue to engage closely with them and are responsive to both security issues and their general engineering needs, but obviously there's a trend, and there's long-term risk.

As an engineer and a business owner, you have to weigh the benefits and the risks and choose a technology that makes the most sense to you and your clients. If you're looking to write content that lives indefinitely with minimal maintenance overhead, staying as close to the web standards as possible would be the most prudent path forward.