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"The land of ten-thousand Nopes."

I've been waiting for someone to lend legitimacy to the myth that flash is, in fact, dead and/or dying. If Brin and Page can't do it, maybe Strong Bad can.

I read an article a few weeks back, when FireFox did their auto-off flash. Had a quote from the creator of Newgrounds. Said he couldn't count how many times he's heard flash was dying.

Everyone saying flash is "dead" is just click baiting. "Dying" is even a stretch.

Doesn't VS have a lot of Flash videos too?

It is in the process of moving from a mainstream product used by everybody and installed by default to a niche product used by a few and not installed by default. I don't know if you'd say that counts as dead or dying, but it is certainly changing.

The reasons for this include the number of security flaws found in flash, and the increasing capabilities of html5, but it also just seems that the world is moving on and leaving it behind. You could say that Apple started the trend, but it's also possible that they just picked up on it before anybody else.

Interestingly though, just as the move away from flash became obvious, VMWare have moved from a standalone vsphere client to a flash app for managing enterprise ESX clusters.

At least they didn't make it Java based. Java made me take back everything bad I've ever said about Flash.

Given the differences in design and intent, the similarities are remarkable.

I have a large number of embedded devices (mostly server manager cards or the like) that use java controls, and they generally don't have updates available, so the change to java security mandating a Permissions attribute in the manifest means I have a lot of entries in the java security exceptions list.

I don't particularly have a problem with java the language, but java plug-ins have become really painful.