Flash

Before and with flash

before the age of flash, the internet and websites were a barren wasteland of black and white ( or even just a single monochromatic color) text and nothing but that. with the introduction of flash in the late 90's websites became more vibrant had more moving parts and more interactive pieces. flash guaranteed that the content that was being displayed would look like and behave the same way for anyone on any operating system and in any browser that saw it.

Apple

However with anything on the internet it will eventually fall or become obsolete. This happened for flash in 2007 when Apple decided not to support flash on their newly introduced IPhone. Around this time HTML5 was starting to emerge and that would be supported instead of the highly loved at the time flash. Flash before this was at its peak. it had been used to create many a interactive website and games that were played by many people every single day.

The downfall

in 2011 adobe acknowledged the changing tide and decided to cease production of the flash player for android operating systems and created Edge Animate a new way to create HTML5 content. due to this HTML5 is now universally supported on mobile devices. In 2015 youtube announced that its HTML5 video player was now the default for the website instead of the previously used flash. However there was a last hope for flash, Facebook the largely popular social media and game website was stilling use Flash-based games for over 650 million users.

The Future 

Google owner of the webs most widely used and popular browser Google Chrome has recently announced that the next version of chrome released will automatically have Flash player disabled, in order to use Flash on Chrome users will have to go in and explicitly enable the use of flash player. This is very bad for the future of flash considering that Chrome is the most popular browser in current times.

My thoughts

In my opinion flash was one of the greatest tools a web designer could have and now it is becoming sort of obsolete which is a shame because when i was younger i used to love to play flash-based games like Bloons Tower Defense ,and even today i still play games that were originally made in flash before getting their own engines like the Binding of Isaac. However i don't understand why other than security reasons that flash is becoming obsolete which is something i wish was explained a bit better in this article. 

Link to article: Here