Kiss Flash Player Support Goodbye in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

[redgarl]

[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]LMAO!Jobs was right after all... Waiting for all the Android fanboy hate[/citation]

Steve Jobs created a cult and is still selling you overpriced hardware in his tomb... probably still even laughing at the same time.

Seriously, I am staying away from the smart phone market. I earn 70k$ per year and I still find a 60$ monthly bill to be outrageous for... a phone!

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]Flash isn't going anywhere anytime soon...[/citation]
it should have been gone years ago when even kiddies were using it to hack everything.
were i microsoft i would have made html5 back when adobes exploit rich software started enabling hackers to mess with hotmail and address books and other microsoft software.

i understand why they didn't, but still eliminate a big galaxy wide hole in security that flash is and microsofts reputation would be alot less untarnished in the virus world.

 

[sicom]

Do Youtube videos play in HTML5 automatically on tablets? I've only seen a handful of Youtube videos that support HTML5, but I only use the site on my desktop.

 

[sundragon]

[citation][nom]redgarl[/nom]Steve Jobs created a cult and is still selling you overpriced hardware in his tomb... probably still even laughing at the same time.Seriously, I am staying away from the smart phone market. I earn 70k$ per year and I still find a 60$ monthly bill to be outrageous for... a phone![/citation]

All that is great and dandy, but it doesn't answer the point.

He was right... And he got flamed for being right about a piece of software that kills smart phone batteries like the grim reaper during a natural disaster...

xoxo

 

[huntx23]

this is sadly one of the reasons many people say to android over iphone...

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]All that is great and dandy, but it doesn't answer the point. He was right... And he got flamed for being right about a piece of software that kills smart phone batteries like the grim reaper during a natural disaster...xoxo[/citation]
No he wasn't. HTML5 wasn't ready at that time to replace Flash and still isn't ready. It will take some time for all APIs to be finalized and it will take even more time before HTML5 becomes recommended by the W3C.

 

[classzero]

[citation][nom]RicardoK[/nom]Am I the only one that will miss Flash?? I do use a lot of flash based websites..[/citation]

Any web developer using flash still is either lazy for not informed.

 

[sundragon]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]No he wasn't. HTML5 wasn't ready at that time to replace Flash and still isn't ready. It will take some time for all APIs to be finalized and it will take even more time before HTML5 becomes recommended by the W3C.[/citation]

"The HTML5 specification was adopted as the starting point of the work of the new HTML working group of the W3C in 2007. This working group published the First Public Working Draft of the specification on 22 January 2008. Parts of HTML5 have been implemented in browsers despite the whole specification not yet having reached final Recommendation status." - Citation: "HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.". World Wide Web Consortium.

HTML 5 was well underway at that point...

Furthermore, we should have continued to use an software that was at the time not optimized for GPUs, full of bugs and huge security holes because HTML 5 wasn't ready. The A/V sections of HTML 5 were up and running on Youtube and other sites at the time. HTML 5 wasn't vapor ware.

Microsoft stepped in (along with a number of other software developers) and concurred - http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-20106786.html

No, the point was to fix Flash or stop pushing it as a standard. Adobe had dropped the ball on updates and innovations on Flash, it caused laptops to run slowly and killed their batteries.

 

[atminside]

I am pretty sure this was done assure media content providers that android owners wont be able to watch bootlegged flash embedded videos and instead will be forced to pay to watch them.

 

[jerm1027]

Yeah, I stopped using Flash on Android a long time ago. Flash sucks. And with Firefox 14 out for Android, HTML5 is a fisable alternative for the YouTubes. I wonder if this means the YouTube app will actually get more videos converted over?

 

[hoofhearted]

I am glad to see Flash go. I disabled it months ago, mainly because all it was was a source of intrusive ads.

 

[tburns1]

What about all that porn that is in flash format?!?

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

Am I the only one that will miss Flash?? I do use a lot of flash based websites..

I use flash based websites as well. In fact nearly every site I visit with video is flash based. So what happens in Android 4.1 (especially since I'm considering a Nexus 7)