Flash: Back from the dead again?

    Flash: Back from the dead again?


    Posted: 05 Apr 2013
    Microsoft changes its IE Flash policies, there are ructions in HTML5, and Adobe is readying a new release of its Flash development tools. Is it time for the return of the plug-in?

    Although Microsoft has been proselytising the 'plugin-free Web' for the last couple of years, it doesn't think Flash is dead yet, either.

    That's why Internet Explorer 10 on Windows RT ended up including Flash built into the browser (and updated along with the rest of Windows, to avoid the security problems as hackers turn their attention away from the better-secured Windows operating system and onto common applications like Flash and Acrobat).

    Initially, Flash was locked down on Windows RT and in the 'modern' version of IE 10 even on Windows 8, so that it would only run if sites were on a Microsoft approved whitelist.
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    Flash: Back from the dead again? | ZDNet
    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    05 Apr 2013



  1. Posts : 983
    10 x64 | 7 x64
       #1

    Well, they certainly wouldn't want any unused advertising space to go to waste.
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  2. Posts : 548
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #2

    I wasn't aware Flash was dead, on the contrary it seems to be going as strong as it ever did. The times where I've had to use HTML5 implementations of what Flash did, it was just a pain in the ass to deal with.
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  3. Posts : 117
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SP1
       #3

    Flash is alive and well on my PC & even my smartphone...
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  4. Posts : 15
    Win 7 Pro 64bit
       #4

    Hi All,
    Flash, Java, Silverscreen and HTML.
    What a wonderfull c**kup.
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