iPad 3 release date ushers in HTML5 internet era as Adobe knifes Flash

Goodbye, Flash. Hello to the iPad 3 era in which the modern internet is built on HTML5 technology instead. Adobe, which owns Flash, discontinued the Mobile Flash Player today, bringing to an end the company’s failed attempts to deliver the obsolete website technology to mobile devices. The iPad and iPhone refused to display Flash at all, with the late Steve Jobs having cited the buggy, slow, resource-eating, insecure, crash-prone, battery-eating nature of Flash. Competing tablets and smartphones displayed Flash, but did so poorly. This also means the end of Flash on Macs and PCs, although that’ll take time. But Flash will begin disappearing from websites at a faster rate in general now, meaning that by the time the iPad 3 sees its release date, Flash will be fading fast…Many major websites have alternate mobile versions which automatically display on smartphones, and most of those mobile sites are already Flash-free thanks to Apple’s anti-mobile-Flash stance going back to 2007. 

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