Chrome To Default To HTML5

[Megalith]

While most of us are smart enough to know how to disable Flash on our own, it’s nice to see that appropriate steps are being taken to ensure its demise.

As its name suggests, the feature would set Chrome to run the HTML5 version of web pages by default. If not available, the browser would then check for Flash content and ask the user to manually approve it before loading. This would, in effect, seal off Flash content from the user unless absolutely necessary, though Chromium developers do note that they plan to exempt the top 10 domains that use Flash for one year in order to reduce impact of the blockade. "While Flash historically has been critical for rich media on the web, today in many cases HTML5 provides a more integrated media experience with faster load times and lower power consumption," the Chromium developers explain.

 

[temujin987]

once twitch gets their html5 player ready, i'll finally be able to uninstall flash... the cpu usage even on an i7 6700k of their flash player is ridiculous, but the old version from a year ago was even worse.

 

[steakman1971]

It needs to die. Kill it with fire.

 

[chaikovski2002]

^ What he said! Kill it NAO!

 

[Dwango]

Sadly a lot of businesses still uses services that rely on Flash. Java and Flash will never truly be stamped out of web use until those services make the switch and many have no impetus to do so or lack the budget to make it happen.

 

[Compddd]

Why the hell is twitch still using flash?

 

[travbrad]

Why the hell is twitch still using flash?

I don't know but they have a Twitch iOS app (since Apple hates flash too) so at the very least they could make an "app" like that for Windows. You can do it with 3rd party tools (like LiveStreamer) but it's a bit clunky and complicated (command line) for the average person who just wants to browse through twitch and click on a stream to play it.

 

[the_servicer]

I know a high school computer teacher who creates assignments that require pro-level Flash software and insists that Flash is how multimedia happens on the web.

 

[Dr. Righteous]

I know a high school computer teacher who creates assignments that require pro-level Flash software and insists that Flash is how multimedia happens on the web.

Good grief; I'm not surprised.
My senior year in HS was the first year they had a "computer lab".
The teacher (who really knew nothing about programming) had a pet student she hailed a "wiz kid" that wrote a simple program that displayed text on the screen to tell a story; press the space bar for the next page.
They were all giddy saying "she has created the future of books!!!"

 

[Compddd]

I know a high school computer teacher who creates assignments that require pro-level Flash software and insists that Flash is how multimedia happens on the web.

Sounds like a moron.

 

[the_servicer]

I think less about the teacher and more about the teenagers who are all sitting there day after day, hard at work creating Flash animations. I guess there are much worse things they could be doing. It's not like it's a complete waste of time.

Sounds like a moron.

 

[canontk]

once twitch gets their html5 player ready, i'll finally be able to uninstall flash... the cpu usage even on an i7 6700k of their flash player is ridiculous, but the old version from a year ago was even worse.

I use html5 with Safari on my Mac, works fine, just can't set the quality. It looks as good as source most the time and it's not keeping my CPU at 55% anymore. I'll give up the control and maybe a little quality not to have my iMac running at freaking 55% CPU for hours. With HTML5 it runs at 3% CPU.

 

[rezerekted]

Firefox has defaulted to HTML5 for a long time already.

 

[pothb]

I think less about the teacher and more about the teenagers who are all sitting there day after day, hard at work creating Flash animations. I guess there are much worse things they could be doing. It's not like it's a complete waste of time.

It will be if no one uses it anymore.

I used to do flash stuff, though, at a very shttty and low level when I was in highschool..... ages ago. Back then it was still a rather new thing. But nowadays? It's considered to be on the way out, and it would be gone if it weren't for some that still insist on using it.

 

[Ryokurin]

Why the hell is twitch still using flash?

They've been transitioning for the past year, they are just taking their time about it like Youtube did. Currently the video is Flash but the controls are HTML5.

 

[Ryokurin]

I know a high school computer teacher who creates assignments that require pro-level Flash software and insists that Flash is how multimedia happens on the web.

Takes a while for most schools to change their curriculum let alone realize that it needs to be changed. When I was in school in the 90s the programming class taught Turbo Pascal on IBM PS/1s. You could argue because of Y2K it was still relevant but it was 1998, the window for that was closing. The PCs were finally updated when i was leaving, but I bet they kept teaching Pascal for a few more years after that.

 

[canontk]

Takes a while for most schools to change their curriculum let alone realize that it needs to be changed. When I was in school in the 90s the programming class taught Turbo Pascal on IBM PS/1s. You could argue because of Y2K it was still relevant but it was 1998, the window for that was closing. The PCs were finally updated when i was leaving, but I bet they kept teaching Pascal for a few more years after that.

I loved Pascal. I learned it on 8088's in 1990. Man.