Posted on 06/15/2016 7:56:24 PM PDT by Utilizer
The web platform is capable of amazing things. Thanks to the ongoing hard work of standards bodies, browser vendors, and web developers, web standards are feature-rich and continuously improving. The WebKit project in particular emphasizes security, performance, and battery life when evaluating and implementing web standards. These standards now include most of the functionality needed to support rich media and interactive experiences that used to require legacy plug-ins like Adobe Flash. When Safari 10 ships this fall, by default, Safari will behave as though common legacy plug-ins on users’ Macs are not installed.
On websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 implementations of content, Safari users will now always experience the modern HTML5 implementation, delivering improved performance and battery life. This policy and its benefits apply equally to all websites; Safari has no built-in list of exceptions. If a website really does require a legacy plug-in, users can explicitly activate it on that website.
If you’re a web developer, you should be aware of how this change will affect your users’ experiences if parts of your websites rely on legacy plug-ins. The rest of this post explains the implementation of this policy and touches on ways to reduce a website’s dependence legacy plug-ins.
(Excerpt) Read more at webkit.org ...
Of interest to everyone that hates Flash. I hope this will be the impetus to lead many site owners to drop Flash from their site.
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Yes, Flash is old and useless now that HTML5 is mature. I can’t wait to see Flash go away. Sadly, a lot of those wonderful popup ads still run in Flash, so I don’t get to see them properly on my iPhone or in Safari.
It’s also a battery killer and a continual source of security-related patches.
I use an iPad at home and when I travel. One of my favorite sites has lots of videos but I can’t watch them because Flash is not supported on Apple mobile devices. I sent a link to this thread to the webmaster; maybe he’ll take the hint and switch to HTML5.
It’s not just popup ads that need Flash. Some of the websites I go to from time to time still require it to view their content, and wishing it was otherwise does not solve the problem.
It will take some time, it would appear, but for now Flash is still necessary for some websites to function properly...
So is the ‘doze platform itself, in many ways, but some of us are still required to support it nonetheless.
bfl
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