▲ 341 ▼ Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023 (ruffle.rs) submitted 2 years ago by wiki_me@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 years ago (3 children) Wikipedia says at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#End_of_life that the EOL was announced in 2017 and took effect in 2020, much less than 10 years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago Same section also has this: In November 2011, about a year after Jobs' open letter, Adobe announced it would no longer be developing Flash and advised developers to switch to HTML5. You can see why someone might think it was ten years ago based off this. permalink fedilink source parent [–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Yeah but it was an unsecure piece of shit for more than the past decade permalink fedilink source parent [–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) I remember much earlier announces. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) It was on its way out when smartphones and HTML5 became widely adopted. Smartphones didn't support Flash and HTML5 made sure that the things you used to need Flash for were just implemented in web browsers. Maybe you remember something along those lines. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago What I remembered was abandoning Linux NPAPI Flash plugin in 2012. The PPAPI plugin indeed existed for longer time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago Same section also has this: In November 2011, about a year after Jobs' open letter, Adobe announced it would no longer be developing Flash and advised developers to switch to HTML5. You can see why someone might think it was ten years ago based off this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Yeah but it was an unsecure piece of shit for more than the past decade permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) I remember much earlier announces. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) It was on its way out when smartphones and HTML5 became widely adopted. Smartphones didn't support Flash and HTML5 made sure that the things you used to need Flash for were just implemented in web browsers. Maybe you remember something along those lines. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago What I remembered was abandoning Linux NPAPI Flash plugin in 2012. The PPAPI plugin indeed existed for longer time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) It was on its way out when smartphones and HTML5 became widely adopted. Smartphones didn't support Flash and HTML5 made sure that the things you used to need Flash for were just implemented in web browsers. Maybe you remember something along those lines. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago What I remembered was abandoning Linux NPAPI Flash plugin in 2012. The PPAPI plugin indeed existed for longer time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago What I remembered was abandoning Linux NPAPI Flash plugin in 2012. The PPAPI plugin indeed existed for longer time. permalink fedilink source parent