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.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday April 22 2018, @05:36PM (2 children)
If not through Flash, and not through WebRTC (which uses JavaScript), then through what technology should the developer of a video communication application make it available to users of Windows 7, users of Windows 10 UWP, users of macOS, users of iOS, users of X11/Linux, and users of Android? Or is everyone supposed to buy and carry three devices?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 23 2018, @03:26AM (1 child)
Using a native cross-platform development kit.
Applications don't belong in the browser. Applications belong directly under the operating system where they can be properly isolated and secured.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday April 24 2018, @12:19AM
And do what to recover the recurring fee for releasing native binaries for Windows UWP and iOS? This amount is greater than the cost of a domain and hosting because unlike TLS certificates for websites, code signing certificates for native applications have no such thing as a "domain-validated certificate." Would you find it fair to charge users of the native applications to cover the cost of maintaining these certificates?
Would it be accEptabLe to delivEr, along with each Copy of an applicaTion, a copy of Google ChRome hardcOded to view oNe website? The user would install it the same way as any other native application.