Early Tuesday, Adobe announced that it’s planning to put its well-known Flash plug-in in what is called at End Of Life sometime in the year 2020.
The company is encouraging developers to begin and migrate away from the plug in, in favor for other, more updated technologies such as HTML5, WebGL, and others:
But as open standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured over the past several years, most now provide many of the capabilities and functionalities that plugins pioneered and have become a viable alternative for content on the web. Over time, we’ve seen helper apps evolve to become plugins, and more recently, have seen many of these plugin capabilities get incorporated into open web standards. Today, most browser vendors are integrating capabilities once provided by plugins directly into browsers and deprecating plugins.
The elimination of Flash should not impact users that much, as some current and newer web sites have been all but abandon the technology for years.
Even the late Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs penned a letter about the upcoming demise of the technology before his death in late winter of 2011.
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