Comparison of HTML5 and Flash: Difference between revisions

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}}</ref> Both include features for playing audio and [[video]] within [[web page]]s. Flash was specifically built to integrate [[vector graphics]] and light games in a web page, features that HTML5 also supports.

As of December 31, 2020, Adobe no longer supports Flash Player. afterAs Decemberof 31January 12, 20202021, they andhave blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021.

The [[HTML5]] specification does not itself define ways to do animation and interactivity within web pages.<ref name="williamson">{{cite video

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==== Flash ====

Originally, web browsers could not render Flash media themselves, and required the [[proprietary software|proprietary]] freeware plugin [[Adobe Flash Player]]. Until 2008, there was no official specification by which to create an alternative player. Alternative players were developed before 2008, but they supported Flash to a lesser degree than the official one.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/manual/gnashref.html#runs-on |title=Gnash Reference Manual |publisher=Gnu.org |date=2008-05-18 |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref> Flash support iswas built in tointo [[Google Chrome]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2010/03/dev-channel-update_30.html|title=Integrated Adobe Flash Player Plug-in|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131084726/http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.cz/2010/03/dev-channel-update_30.html|archive-date=2013-01-31|work=Chrome team blog}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.chromium.org/2012/08/the-road-to-safer-more-stable-and.html|title=Porting Flash to sandboxed PPAPI platform|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725110647/https://blog.chromium.org/2012/08/the-road-to-safer-more-stable-and.html|archive-date=2018-07-25|work=Official Chromium Blog}}</ref> [[Internet Explorer 10]] (and later),<ref>{{cite web|title=Flash Player issues &#124; Windows 8|url=https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-8.html|publisher=Adobe Systems|access-date=2016-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220210445/https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-8.html|archive-date=2016-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Flash Player Issues &#124; Windows 10 &#124; Internet Explorer|url=https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-10-ie.html|publisher=Adobe Systems|access-date=2016-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220210544/https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-10-ie.html|archive-date=2016-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Microsoft Edge]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Flash Player issues &#124; Windows 10 &#124; Microsoft Edge|url=https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-10-edge.html|publisher=Adobe Systems|access-date=2016-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220210517/https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-10-edge.html|archive-date=2016-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref>

The last version of the Adobe Flash Player ran on [[Microsoft Windows]], Apple [[macOS]], [[Research In Motion|RIM]], [[QNX]] and [[Google TV (operating system)|Google TV]].

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}}</ref>) (Flash 11.2), [[Linux]] (Flash 11.2, except for Pepper Flash which is maintained and distributed by Google, not Adobe), [[PlayStation 3]] (Flash 9), and [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] (Flash 6). [[Adobe Flash Lite]] runsran on [[Wii]], [[Symbian]], [[Maemo]] Linux, [[Windows Mobile]], and [[Chumby]].

Apple never allowed Flash to run on [[iOS]], the operating system which runs on [[iPad]], [[iPhone]], [[iPod Touch]] and [[Apple TV]].<ref name="thoughtsFlash"/> Apple officially dropped support for Adobe Flash from the macOS version of Safari 14 released on September 17, 2020 for macOS 10.14 Mojave & macOS 10.15 Catalina.