Alson Kaw
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So, Is Flash Going Away?

Flash was already on borrowed time as HTML5 and modern browsers absorbed more of its capabilities. The real question was how quickly the transition would.

Posted on15 Mar 2011
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Flash was already on borrowed time as HTML5 and modern browsers absorbed more of its capabilities. The real question was how quickly the transition would.
Flash Player's Icon Rising through the Clouds into Heaven

Austin Carr, quoting Firefox VP Jay Sullivan:

“I think so in the long run,” Sullivan says. “A lot of it has to do with HTML5. With Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 9, and Chrome, to the extent that we provide functionality in enough browsers, then the developers will switch over to HTML5, especially in mobile, where you can’t have Flash popping up on every page just to do some little animation. The idea that you’d have to embed an entire instance of the Flash player just to play a 30 second audio clip? It’s crazy.”

via FastCompany.