Most audio and video content on the web requires Adobe Flash Player to function. This has been going on for many years now, and the plugin has been the norm for internet browsing. It works in tandem with your preferred web browser and gives you access to all sorts of sophisticated media files.
Origins of Adobe Flash Player
Flash was initially a Macromedia property. The software was freely distributed after the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe in 2005. After that, Flash Player saw many uses and an ever-growing user base.
If you were starting to create animations, UIs or web games you needed Flash Player as the base for your software. The software has been built as an attachment for an OS and is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.
Multiple media formats are included in the Flash platform. These include FLV, GIF, JPEG, MP3, and PNG files.
Rise and fall of Adobe Flash Player
The software saw itself operating in over 400 million computers in 2013. That meant that Flash was present in 40 percent of computers at that time. Despite achieving this result after just being released for a month and a half, Flash had received a lot of complaints based primarily on performance. But security vulnerabilities and power consumption were also negative factors.
The performance of the software on iOS was so bad that a petition was made to ban it from the user base. Modern standards in internet browsing have caused Flash to fall due to its reliability issues.
Days are numbered for Adobe Flash Player
It has been announced in mid-2017 that Flash will no longer be supported by Adobe nor adopted by major browsing companies like Google by 2020. Chrome has denied websites from having access to the plugin as default and even Adobe is encouraging developers to use other platforms for their applications.
Nora Reynolds is a major in biology and a minor in Biological Basis of Behavior, writing about science in general. She also likes to try new gadgets and sports about the AI new era.
