Flash Is Gone and Web Standards Now Reign Supreme in Multimedia

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Adobe Flash, the once hugely popular multimedia software platform, was discontinued at the end of 2020 — to a mostly positive reaction across social media and the developer ecosystem. Matt May, who is head of inclusive design at Adobe, summed it up the best: “As an animation platform, Flash launched the web into new directions.

So in that era, Flash was seen as a panacea for designers and companies that wanted to show some visual flair in their websites.

But the crux of his argument was that web developers could do much of what they did in Flash, but with HTML5 instead.

But the bottom line is that it runs beautifully in the browser, thanks to web standards.

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