The death bed of Adobe Flash Player
I was sitting in my car when I started web browser on my phone and accessed a few websites. It was going fine until I encountered a website furnished with a lot of flash content. It was trying hard to flash some animations on my screen but it failed horribly.
“Oh.. this phone is a curse…” was my first reaction but when I deep penetrated into the cause I found the culprit was the Adobe Flash player either poorly rendering the animations or not rendering at all.
Always in limelight, Adobe Flash Player, was & is the need of the hour as the ant sized plug-in runs giant animations and there is no alternative to it. The animated web world on our desktops is pushed over only because of the Adobe’s slick creation. Over the years, Adobe’s loyal plugin has bagged umpteen popularity and sooner it became the necessity for users from a kid to an entrepreneur. Adobe Flash Player has the potential to run the websites, animations, games and even the campaigns over the websites are driven by a Flash player.
From desktops to laptops, to tablets and to mobile phones, Adobe Flash Player is always a part and parcel of the web world. When all other similar products are failing, Adobe Flash Player was enjoying its monopoly till it was hard brunt by the latest version of HTML language i.e., HTML 5.
W3c(World Wide Web) Consortium claims that HTML 5 is much more advanced and has the potential to play videos, audios, animations and graphics without the support of any such plugins. Woah!! it’s miraculously claiming that now there is no need of Adobe’s Flash player anymore, at least not in the mobile world.
Since no technology comes with negative critics, HTML 5 is also facing a few blows when it encounters age old browsers. It is still lagging behind with the desktops but it has marked its influential presence in mobile phones and the tablets.
Once thriving Adobe Flash player is now in the doldrums as the latest technology in software and hardware is thrashing its shields. Apple’s godfather, Late. Steve Jobs, too went rough on Adobe when he indicated in one of his documents that Apple is eliminating any dependencies on Adobe Flash player in its iPad and iPhones. Even Adobe has declared that it is not going to upgrade its flash player for mobile phones though it will continue its development for desktops.
Now it is realized that the golden days of Flash player are gone now and soon it will be a thing of the past. Finally, lets wait and watch for the time when we will get all the web content in HTML 5.
