Flash to end with 2020 According to Adobe

One of those banes of my existence is Adobe Flash. My primary complaints surround the dreaded "flash ads" but I also view "flash content" as cliche anymore and could really use a dose of HTML5 on these web pages still clinging to it.

Those native capabilities to be derived from browsers supporting open standards like WebGL and HTML5 are indeed eclipsing the plugin based browser add ons such as Flash and I for one will be glad to see it leave as the has been it is for a decade or more now.

Yet the ads persist. Yet the video based sites like YouTube continue using it ... with all the exploits and old technology that goes with it.

Deprecation has it's place in IT. Flash is deprecated. It's time for it to go away. That content which is based upon it can simply evolve or go away with it as far as I'm concerned. I look forward to the day when I can banish the plugin forever ... but even I have things at work which require it.

So much for forward thinking vendors and their penchants for embedded limitations into their work by choice.