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Adobe Finally Killing Off Shockwave in April
End-of-Life Approaching Adobe is putting the final nail in the coffin of Adobe Shockwave plugin, announcing its discontinuation starting April 9th, 2019. One can’t really say they did not see this coming. In fact, it is surprising that it has held on for so long and it remains one of…
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Google Chrome Employs HTML5 on Most Websites
Google has been consistently refining their Chrome web browser to provide users with a more enjoyable user experience without impacting on stability. This attitude has pay dividends and the browser easily eclipses other options when it comes to the market share numbers. Saying that, Chrome isn’t particularly lightweight and certainly…
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Flash Hit by Another Zero-Day Vulnerability
Like a sailor, desperately panning water out of a sinking ship, Adobe has released an out-of-bound patch for yet another zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software. Versions of Flash affected by the vulnerability are those released on 11th October and earlier, from version 23.0.0.185 (or version 11.2.202.637 on Linux).…
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Google is Dropping Flash Display Adverts
Adobe’s Flash is commonly used stream video content on various services including YouTube, DailyMotion and more! However, the software plugin has a fairly terrible reputation for being unstable, and causing web browsers to freeze. As a result, websites began to slowly move towards HTML5 integration which provides a better user-experience.…
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Oracle is Killing Off Java
Outdated browser plugin Java is finally being pulled, Oracle has announced. Java will be slowly phased out, beginning with a deprecation of the plugin starting with JDK 9. The advent of HTML5 means that buggy and insecure browser plugins, such as Flash and Java, are no longer required, with Google…
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Adobe Renames Flash and Shifts Emphasis to HTML5
Adobe has unveiled its new 2016 Creative Cloud package, bringing with it the end of Flash, but in name only. From now on, Flash – now notorious for its regular security holes and exploits – will be known as Adobe Animate CC, with Adobe making a noticeable shift toward HTLM5.…
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The BBC Implements HTML5 to iPlayer
I think we can all say that Adobe Flash Player is very much being knocked to its knees in recent months, from endless, and I do mean endless, vulnerabilities which put countless users at risk to the annoying aspect of running a plug-in which enjoys crashing and breaking functionality on…
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Amazon Bans Flash Adverts on Its Own Domains
Amazon has updated the terms of its Technical Guidelines to prohibit any advert on Amazon-branded sites using Adobe’s Flash protocol. The change will commence on the 1st September and Amazon explained their reasoning in an introductory post: “Beginning September 1, 2015, Amazon no longer accepts Flash ads on Amazon.com, AAP, and various…
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Twitch Transitioning From Flash to HTML5
Game streaming platform Twitch is finally switching from the notoriously unsafe Adobe Flash to HTML5, following in the steps of YouTube, which made the same change to its videos in January this year. The HTML5 rollout, which also includes JavaScript controls, will be gradual, and the underlying videos will still…
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Google Changes how Flash Ads Work in Chrome
Despite helping pay for web content, auto-playing Flash ads have become the bane of internet users. While third party plugins have long offered the ability to control Flash elements, Google is now baking in the ability to pause auto-playing Flash ads right into Chrome. Starting with the latest Chrome Beta…
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YouTube Live Streaming Now Available With HTML5 and 60FPS Support
It looks like the old Flash Player is going to be scrapped sooner than expected. After enabling support for HTML5 video playback, YouTube is now extending that support to live streaming sessions. This means that users can now watch live streaming videos on HTML5-enabled browsers and at 60FPS! The slow…
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Microsoft Edge Browser to Ditch ActiveX
Microsoft Edge, the browser formally known as Project Spartan to be bundled with Windows 10, will ditch ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects (BHO) in favour of HTML5 and JavaScript. However, the replacement will not appear until after the release of Windows 10 this Summer. Internet Explorer 11 support, which still…
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Google to Automatically Convert Flash Ads in HTML5
Flash is dead. Long live HTML5. Adobe’s Flash player is notoriously buggy and vulnerable to malware attacks, a fact that is slowly scaring off websites, developers, and users in equal measure. YouTube has already ditched the software in favour of the new standard language HTML5, and now Google will be…
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YouTube Now Uses HTML5 by Default in-Browser
Five years after starting support for the HTML5 standard, YouTube has dropped Flash Player to use the HTML5 <video> format as its default player in-browser. According to YouTube, the five-year wait was to allow once-experimental HTML5 time to mature. The HTML5 standard is now widely adopted by the best of…
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Google’s Web Designer Updated with Animation Tools and More
It’s been almost a year since Google introduced us to their HTML5 Web Designer, a free tool for all major platforms created to make it easy for any one to create interactive HTML5 sites and advertising. We’ve only seen a couple minor patches and updates since then, but now Google…
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