Wednesday, July 26, 2017

#300: Adobe plans to stop distributing Flash

Frontend Focus
Issue 300 — July 26, 2017
Adobe is planning to stop updating and distributing Flash at the end of 2020, encouraging creators to migrate Flash content to open formats like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly.
Adobe

Manuel Matuzović thinks Grid is “one of the most exciting developments since responsive design” adding that we should “get the best out of it as soon as possible”.
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Sebastian Eberlein explores ‘edge cases’ where scaling a fixed layout with viewport units can be a viable solution.
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In this talk from CSS Day 2017 Rachel explores how the Web Animations API can be used to generate, manipulate and run CSS Animations in the browser. Associated slides here.
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Mozilla has prepared a roadmap for Flash support in Firefox, and guides for site authors to make their final transition away from Flash technology.
Benjamin Smedberg

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