The interactive multimedia platform’s decline started when Apple rejected Flash back in 2007, refusing to use it for the iPhone’s operating system. Modern web technologies with cross-platform support and open-source code are taking over. Is it really the end of Flash?Īdobe Flash has been gradually fading away for the last 10 years and now it’s finally time to say goodbye. Read on to find the latest details on Flash’s end of life along with the tools required for Flash to HTML5 conversion. So if you have content still running on Flash, you’ll have to make the transition to HTML5 for it to remain available for users on the web. This marks the demise of Flash-based content. The call I am making that obtains the Flash image from AccuWeather is: Ĭan anyone tell me what the javascript would be to use Smokescreen to display the flash image produced by the above code as an image.Back in 2017 Adobe officially announced that 2020 will be the last year of their support for the Adobe Flash Player plugin. All I need is a simple javascript-based conversion of the flash button to a flat image that can be displayed in any browser that can execute javascript, which includes mobile devices.īut the documentation and description of how to use Smokescreen at their GitHub site is minimal at best, and I'm not a javascript expert and cannot get it working. I don't need this to reproduce flash movies. I thought I found a solution in an Open Source project called Smokescreen that has its development area at Github. However, the button generated is in Adobe Flash format (swf) and doesn't display on most mobile devices since iOS and Windows Phone have no support and Flash Player for Android is no longer available for download from the Google Play app store. I love the simple way this button displays. I have a simple script from AccuWeather to display a weather button on my website: