With 2020 in the rearview mirror, most people will need to visit a digital museum to relive cartoons such as Homestar Runner and Peanut Butter Jelly Time or their favorite early web-based tower ...
Flash is dead and has been for years. Every major web browser disabled the infamous plug-in back in 2020 (the main thing we all remember about that otherwise uneventful year). Most of us didn't mourn ...
My earliest memory of Flash was that it got me into trouble. I had heard about a website that hosted brutal games, including one particularly difficult shooter starring an audacious yellow alien. I ...
The next revision of the HTML web language will make Adobe's Flash technology largely redundant, according to the chief executive of browser company Opera. The open web standards included in HyperText ...
In a rare response to the chatter about Apple’s tech feud with Adobe, Apple’s Steve Jobs has declared that that the Web should really embrace open standards, even while the iPhone remains closed. In a ...
HTML5 will become the desktop default, at least in Google’s Chrome browser. The company is planning to turn off Flash for its massive user base of desktop users ...
The Free Software Foundation has called on Google to cast a "death-blow" to the dominance of Flash in web video, by making its newly acquired VP8 codec royalty-free and promoting it on YouTube. Google ...
The Apple iPad won't support Internet Flash, just like the iPhone and iPod Touch before it, making the iPad have crippled web surfing and limiting video gaming options. As addressed on TechCrunch, ...
iOS users, long accustomed to working around the platform’s notorious lack of Flash support, could be in for a breath of fresh air with the recent approval and release of the Flash-video-playing ...
When Skyfire Labs this week released an iOS browser that promised to play Flash content, it seemed they had a hit on their hands. But few—including Skyfire Labs itself—expected the app to sell as ...
Adobe is finally ending support for its Flash Player, a pioneering technology that once enabled easier creation of online animation. Historian Anastasia Salter helps explain. "Salad Fingers" was one ...