This Is the Next Tech Giant Waving Goodbye to Adobe Flash
Jonathan Vanian
Updated: Dec 15, 2016 12:02 PM Pacific
fortune.com
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Another big tech company is phasing out Adobe’s Flash player.
Microsoft said this week that the next version of its Edge web browser, the replacement for its Internet Explorer browser, will automatically block Flash media from displaying when people visit websites that use the video player.
If people wish to see blocked content on websites that heavily use Flash, they can choose to do so via clicking on the appropriate button. For websites that support the HTML5 coding language, the Edge browser will not load any Flash content. But users will still be able to watch videos because HTML5 allows for them.
“To ease the transition to HTML5, these changes initially will not affect the most popular sites which rely on Flash today,” Microsoft Edge managers John Hazen and Crispin Cowan wrote. “In the coming months, we will actively monitor Flash consumption in Microsoft Edge and will gradually shorten the list of automatic exceptions.”
With the move to phase our Flash, Microsoft (MSFT, +0.87%) joins other big web companies like Google (GOOG, +1.53%), Apple (AAPL, +1.16%), and Mozilla, which have all announced similar initiatives. |
