Even Adobe Doesn't Want Flash Around Anymore

Adobe Flash dominated much of the web just a few short years ago. YouTube, advertisements, games, animations, and even random website banners used Flash because it was easy. Just two years ago I took a web design class through my high school that taught using Flash as a website banner to be acceptable. (That whole class was a mess, still using tables, but I digress.) Flash is a resource hog and a security risk to everyone. When HTML5 became heavily adopted as an alternative to Flash, it was clear what was going to win between them. Flash requires security updates, it's slow, it crashes, and isn't supported on mobile devices. For the web to be what it is, everyone needs to be able to access it quickly and efficiently. Flash is holding that back.

Adobe announced last night that it is finally acknowledging that Flash is falling behind its competitors, and suggests users switch to HTML5. Along with this, Adobe is renaming its Flash Professional CC application to Animate CC, indicating that it's trying to move away from the Flash branding and instead focus on general animation. While this isn't completely deprecating Flash, it's a step in the right direction. Hopefully soon Adobe will begin working with Google and Microsoft not just to deliver security updates for Flash, but to remove it from the web completely. Of course, this is up to developers, but I think some anti-Flash propaganda could easily persuade developers to not use it. There are already some trying to do this, such as Occupy Flash, which aim to increase public awareness against Flash and get them to disable it in their browsers.

Source: The Verge