[LINK] Adobe will kill Flash by 2020

[Hamish Moffatt]

On 28/07/17 10:00, David Lochrin wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2017 at 12:44 Stephen Loosley wrote:
>
>> Adobe has officially set a kill date for its beleaguered Flash.
> Dear me, the ABC iView nerds will have to find another obscure, proprietary scheme which is only implemented by Microsoft and Google.
>
> I see SBS On Demand plays perfectly with the VLC ShockWaveFlash player on Linux.  I gather most of the SWF specification is in the public domain, though implementation is still subject to some form of licence.

In the age of HTML5 nobody should be using Flash for video playback now. 
I seem to recall having problems with On Demand on my Android tablet 
because of their use of flash. They have an Android app instead.


Hamish