I have not been keeping up on my 'Net politics, apparently.

My browser (Google Chrome) now sports a banner saying that 'support for Adobe Flash will be terminated December 2020' and MS says that they will be disabling it on December 31 via "Windows Update"

The reason for this concern is that, as I understand it, when one posts a video here, the Forum software does so by putting up links to the video file, using flash tags, and the browser plays the clip using the browser's Flash capabilities...this has me wondering:

• Is there some non-Flash way to post videos on SIG forum?
  
• Is there some non-Adobe app/addin that could keep browsers able to play Flash content after the support?
  
• Is there some way to force the OS/Browsers to keep using Adobe Flash even after 'support goes away' Dec 31?
  

Anyway, as a result of all the 'support going away' fanfare, I'm a little concerned that our tradition of posting Youtube videos etc. for entertainment and explanations could be at risk of going the way of the flintlock.

Hoping some experts will come in and provide some guidance/recommendations.

As you can play the YouTube videos on an iPhone using the Safari browser - that does not support Flash at all - I think you can assume you'll be able to view the YouTube videos on SIGForum.

Although the shortcode might say [flash video] for the embeds, I think it may be more of a JavaScript thing.

Thanks.

I'm going to disable it early and see how it goes.

 
I have been on SIGforum with no Flash for several years now. Everything works fine.

'support for Adobe Flash will be terminated December 2020'

Good riddance.

My (ex-)mum-in-law has been fretting over her diminished Lumosity interactivity. Given Lumosity makes so much money getting people to engage with their applications, I've no doubt Lumosity is rewriting their more popular interactive brain exercises to run on a working platform. I have fond memories listening to a close friend "playing" Lumosity games. Her skills scored over double what I could score Her successes made her happy, and that made me happy. There is definitely a market for these activities.

In 2000, while attending a college-taught desktop publishing certificate program, Flash was taught but we were told it was "on the way out". So here we are, 20 years later. Safari stopped supporting Flash and Chrome stops shortly.