Microsoft, Google and Firefox have all explicitly disabled FP in the browser and then faced backlash from users and then they reenabled it. Remember Microsoft's exclusion list? We read tech blogs and have heard the news but the average user isn't paying attention or they'll be distracted around 2020 (by elections).
My opinion is businesses won't move over unless they have to and many of them don't want to spend the money to. And some companies don't have the money to. What if we fork a version of Firefox that continues to support plugins. Get announcements out to the major tech blogs. Clear up the misconceptions at the same time. Unity would be down for that and they have major investors. They were thrown under the bus too. I had written a paragraph about Googles web team here but to keep it short they are bias and are trying to make decisions for everyone. Firefox is following their lead so they somehow don't lose users. When the browsers makers decide (for everyone) to disable plugins there will be a huge audience looking for a browser that continues to support them. At the same time maybe we can put some part of Flex into it like client side MXML rendering or compiling. I think Alex said the compiler could be stripped down to 29MB. Almost everyone uses IE to download Chrome or Firefox. Download size is not a big an issue as it used to be. HTML, CSS, JS need an upgrade. HTML can be upgraded to MXML (Flex or FlexJS), CSS in Flex has always been fine for me but it could be upgraded to SCSS or post CSS (I'm sure there are others). JS is being upgraded to ES5, 6 slowly but even ES6 still feels less than ES4. That might generate interest from developers. My 2 cents. On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote: > For legacy applications or archival purposes, you'll probably want to > keep an installer for the Flash Player and/or older browsers. So they can > be reset up on an old machine, or in a VM. Browsers, for the most part, > have already shut down their plugin APIs. > > > > On 8/14/2017 8:26 AM, Clint M wrote: > >> I remember reading that browsers won't be supporting after that. >> >> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Deepak MS <megharajdee...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Let's say Adobe releases final version of flash player version 35 for >>> instance, by end of 2019, without further maintenance or development of >>> the >>> plugin. Will this version continue to stay forever, whether or not users >>> want to use it or is it that flash player will be blocked by browsers >>> themselves? It isn't clear in the article. Or did I miss it? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski < >>> nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Looks like we have a date : >>>> >>>> https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html >>>> >>>> -Nick >>>> >>>> > -- > Jeffry Houser > Technical Entrepreneur > http://www.dot-com-it.com > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > 203-379-0773 > >
