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Flash Used on 5% of All Websites, Down From 28.5% Seven Years Ago

posted by chromas on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the made-with-macromedia dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Only 4.9 percent of today's websites utilize Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 percent market share recorded at the start of 2011.

The number, courtesy of web technology survey site W3Techs, confirms Flash's decline, and a reason why Adobe has decided to retire the technology at the end of 2020.

[...] On the client side, browser makers are expected to remove Flash support from their products altogether by the end of 2020 —Flash's end-of-life date.

2020 can't come soon enough.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/flash-used-on-5-percent-of-all-websites-down-from-285-percent-seven-years-ago/

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:25PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:25PM (#670098) Homepage Journal

    Dude... That's not any more difficult to do server side in whatever source language you're using to generate the pages. And it effectively makes that algorithm that would have more or less been run O(1) times per page (memory or web caching) into one that's run O(N) times, though not on your server. That wastes power and makes your page unfriendly to users with javascript turned off.

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