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I have seen a massive downtrend in flash use already. Is there anyone building building new and serious projects in it now?

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Yes, games.

http://www.kongregate.com/top-rated-games?sort=newest

Although it's not clear from just a game being in Flash if it's in Haxe and compiled to Flash or actually in AS, but still. It's so convenient for games.

Sadly yes...

VMWare is one large one.

I know of a very large company that has been over the last couple of years moving from Java to Flash, so it will be amusing to what their reaction will be to this news.

Supposedly upgrading the vSphere web interface to HTML5 is on the roadmap, but I'm not sure when. I'm just happy that they give you an external console app now.

We've been working on it publicly for over a year now. Have you had a chance to try the new HTML5 based #vsphereclient? 6.5.0b: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/03/first-vsphere-clien... or the Fling: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client

Now that we're down to the last few sites running flash it really drives home what an annoyance they are. I don't run flash on my main browser (I work in security), so I have to keep Chrome handy to log into VMWare, and because even the login page is Flash there's little password manager support.

Then once I'm logged in the non-native styling and controls really drive me up the wall.

I know that DI.fm's web player requires it - it's the only thing I whitelist Flash for.

(though from my impression they have a pretty good dev team, so surely they're working on a replacement)

If there is one, that must be an offline developer that doesn't communicate with other developers and missed adobes' own notification adobe adobe flash (https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-an...)

It used to be bundled with Chrome somehow so if you really needed it, you had it. Now I just don't use it. If something requires Flash then well, too bad for me.

Still is bundled with Chrome.

Oh I see, it's behind a "click-to-play" thing. For some reason I thought it was gone.

I can understand why, I feel like the Chrome team has announced 3 or 4 times over the last 5 years that Flash was going away, but the only change was that you had to click to play it, and the other announcements seemed useless.

Artists and animators. Deviantart, Furaffinity.

Turner Classic Movies streams in Flash. Not sure how long that tech has been in use, I only started streaming it recently.

Hotstar's (India's netflix) video player runs on Flash.

Not since they bailed on stage3d. That was the beginning of the end.

I thought this was the beginning of the end: https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Only because Adobe decided to lay down and die after someone said something kinda mean and kinda true.

They could have fixed most of it. Instead they were like "Nah, fuck it"

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