A recent example is the Proxx game made by the Google Chrome team. Furthermore, massively popular sites, including Trivago’s hotel booking form application and social media giant Facebook’s pages, already run as PWAs. Several major players, such as Microsoft, provide resources for PWA development on their platforms. Progressive Web Applications (or PWAs for short) are further closing the gap between desktop and mobile. These “abandoned” applications may have to rely on the effort of different communities to preserve them beyond December this year. Notwithstanding this, there are still a lot of Flash-based applications out there that are not compatible with modern browsers. Under 5% of websites today run Flash, and the technology is almost as old as I am. However, VR Group has since released a mobile version of their booking service and will probably also update their desktop site in the near future. This led to a web architect, Tuomas Salo, creating a third party Flash-free Chrome extension for the web page. They still use Flash for their seat selection when booking tickets through their desktop page. A living example of this is the government-operated railroad company, VR Group, here in Finland. Migrating to a new technology can be a slow and tedious process. Perhaps the most notable criticism of Flash was in the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ memo on the topic in 2010, where he explained why Flash never officially made it onto iOS devices and promoted alternatives. Alternative technologiesĪdobe’s Flash Player couldn’t keep up with the open standards developed during the mobile era: it decreased performance, battery life, and security of devices, compared to technologies such as HTML5 or WebGL etc. Few websites run on Flash anymore, but there are still games, animations, and other content that haven't found their way to a new platform. However, most popular browsers have gradually dropped support for Flash-based software and websites are now forced to shift their multimedia content to other technologies. Migrating to new software technology is unavoidable to maintain usability, and everything from popular streaming videos to browser game classics are at risk of no longer being playable.įlash’s popularity peaked thanks to its rich media streaming and input options. Millions of web pages have run their content on Flash since its initial release in 1996. This means they will no longer distribute or update the Flash Player plugin. Adobe has announced that Flash development will stop at the end of 2020.
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