[OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

[Richmond]

On 11/09/2011 08:26 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> THIS IS BIG NEWS.
>
> If you-all haven't seen this yet...
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/adobe-flash-player-mobile-plug-in_n_1083869.html
>

HOWEVER; like everything else, there will be a significant lag-time 
before Flash vanishes from the web;
developers have put hours and hours of effort into Flash, and I cannot 
envisage them redoing
anything until they absolutely have to. Therefore, while anybody who is 
developing anything for Flash right now ought to pause, take a few very 
deep breaths, say a few rude words, and start all over again without
Flash, browsers are going to need to cope with Flash for a good longish 
time (say 5 years) until all the
current content available has been replaced.