![]() Most importantly, auditing your current learning content will obviously flag any instances of Flash. But there are actions you can take to prevent a Flash fallout: Content Audit If your content does depend on Flash and has no HTML5 fallback, there’s a good chance your content will no longer work. If your training material and learning content currently depends on Flash, there’ll obviously be steps you need to take in the near future. What does this mean for you and your content? Using open-source plugins like H5P, educators and trainers will be able to create interactive HTML5 content for in-person training and online courses. HTML5 can handle pretty much everything Flash did and currently does, and it’s subject to continuous improvement – something Adobe could no longer commit to for Flash. Particularly when we’re talking about learning content, this is a vital requirement: ease of access, anytime, anywhere, using just an internet connection. HTML5 is the natural successor to Flash, first and foremost because it’s supported by all web browsers across the board. As is usually the case with software and technology, when one giant falls – another rises and capitalises. There’s an open-source solution that’s evolved in recent years to do exactly what Flash does – and more. There’s no longer any real need or demand for a privately-owned proprietary plugin to run media content in web browsers. Security aside, there’s a much simpler answer for Flash’s redundancy. In 2016, Flash was the weak link cyber criminals exploited to hack nearly all major desktop platforms, including Microsoft. In 2010, it was Flash’s security vulnerabilities that the late Steve Jobs was most concerned about when he banished it from the iPhone. ![]() Whilst Adobe has never explicitly stated that Flash’s liability to cyber-attacks is one of the reasons for its retirement, its ‘end of life’ statement in 2017 said the company had come to the decision after collaborating with other tech giants “including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.” Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020.”Īdobe probably has many reasons for deciding to end-of-life Flash, one of which will undoubtedly be security. This will signal the end of a three-year ‘phasing out’ period for Flash, after the official announcement by Adobe in 2017 – which was all a bit… morbid: “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Adobe itself will finally pull the plug on December 31st 2020, after almost a quarter of a Century. Launched in 1996, Flash won’t be going anywhere just yet, although both Microsoft and Google say they’ll disable it from their respective browsers “early this year”. But, with a significant amount of learning or course content containing Flash and delivered via a web browser, its upcoming confinement to the digital scrapheap could be kind of a big deal. *Plugin blocked* ‘Enable Flash?’ *Allow* is about as much interaction as most people will have ever had with the plugin. For Joe Public, the impending retirement of Adobe Flash will hardly raise an eyebrow.
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