{"id":148243,"date":"2015-12-02T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=148243"},"modified":"2015-12-02T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:33:47","slug":"stop-using-flash-says-adobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/148243-stop-using-flash-says-adobe.html","title":{"rendered":"Stop using Flash, says Adobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has asked content creators to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/conversations\/2015\/11\/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html?scid=social_20151201_55826586&amp;adbid=671559505906282496&amp;adbpl=tw&amp;adbpr=63786611\"><strong>stop using flash<\/strong><\/a>, and instead encourages them to &#8220;build with new web standards&#8221; &#8211; like HTML5.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by Adobe comes after Google <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136866-chrome-will-stop-flash-auto-playing-certain-content.html\">stopped Chrome from auto-playing<\/a><\/strong> certain bits of Flash content, like advertisements.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/7\/14\/8957177\/mozilla-blocks-flash-as-facebook-security-chief-calls-for-its-death\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>also reported in May that\u00a0Firefox\u2019s\u00a0Mark Schmidt confirmed all versions of Flash Player were\u00a0blocked by the browser.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla\u2019s move followed an announcement by Facebook\u2019s security officer\u00a0Alex Stamos, who asked Adobe to announce an \u201cend-of-life date\u201d for Flash.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Flash<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/132320-using-flash-is-like-leaving-your-home-open-and-sending-invites-to-criminals.html\">Using Flash is like leaving your home open and sending invites to criminals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has asked content creators to stop using flash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,2556,2558],"class_list":["post-148243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-adobe","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148247,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148243\/revisions\/148247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}