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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
Dude you need to be realistic you can't expect all software to be supported forever, I'm afraid it's you that needs to move with the times and change.
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20 years or so ago, Flash was a very useful tool to web designers. It could do a lot of stuff that HTML couldn't, and was cross platform. OK, so Java could also do a lot of the same things, but flash was easier, and the player had a much lighter footprint.
But time marches on. Most of the extra features Flash offered over HTML are now offered by the browsers themselves, through HTML 5. This includes (AFAIK) games, but I think the people who would have been the target market for flash games are now playing much the same sort of games on their mobile phones, usually downloaded from the Apple or Google App stores.
The market for web sites with a flash interface (some of which did look very impressive) has, I think largely been killed off by the various legal requirements to make websites accessible to disabled users, and the remainder has been replaced by CSS styles. There is also the fact it's no longer trendy to have an all singing all dancing website, with loads of bells and whistles. People want one that is functional and pretty.. Not one with loads of flash movies playing in the background and Midi tunes on every page.
Then there are the thousands of security flaws. The black sheep of security was previously Microsoft, with dozens of vulnerabilities being found in their software weekly. Then ,they smartened up their act, and the hackers moved on to Adobe, finding Acrobat/Adobe Reader and Flash Player to be particularly rich sources of vulnerabilities. Acrobat and Adobe Reader are still needed, where as Flash Player has largely fallen out of use, so it's logical that Adobe cancel it, and devote resources to securing Adobe Reader.
And it's only the Player that's going. Adobe Flash itself is still around (under the name Adobe Animate), and is primarily focused on HTML 5 generation.