Friday, September 23, 2011

Anti-flash crowd has just grown bigger

Looks like Apple is now not only the party that is banning Adobe Flash, the common plugin that you see that is being used (e.g. facebook games). Microsoft has also joined in the party for the upcoming IE10. Not only that, Microsoft has banned all plugins, including Silverlight. They did emphasize however that it's only for Metro IE10. I'm not sure why is there 2 different versions of IE though within Windows 8.

What does this mean? Well, since Metro is that skin that Microsoft has been touting for Windows 8, like it or not, the browser developers definitely have to start moving towards HTML5. This change not only affects game developers, but also banks. Why banks? If you noticed, banks actually use some form of java encryption on their front-end, something which I think is fast becoming obsolete due to the 2 factor authentication that is being used nowadays to login.

Oh well, I am and still not a fan of using plugins in any browsers because I have bad experiences of plugins causing the browsers to crash. Not only that, plugins especially Adobe Flash, is the reason why browsers seem to use so much memory.

However, let's hope the non-IT folks will understand that without Flash, that may mean that you need to forgo some flash features that you have previously used. HTML5 is powerful, but not yet that powerful.

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