As kids, we were addicted to Flash games. Flash gave us a respite from boring static web pages. But just like every good thing must come to an end, it's time to say goodbye to Flash.
In his post, Dong-Hwi Lee, an Engineering Manager for Google wrote that Google Search will stop supporting Flash later this year. In Web pages that contain Flash content, Google Search will ignore the Flash content. Google Search will stop indexing standalone SWF files. Most users and websites won't see any impact from this change.
Microsoft had already stopped supporting Flash in 2017. "The end of an era," that's the title Microsoft used to announce it will stop supporting Flash in their web browsers. Flash is disabled by default in Chrome (starting in version 76), Microsoft Edge, and FireFox 69.
"Flash was a prolific technology that inspired many new content creators on the web. It was everywhere. The Flash runtime, which plays Flash content, was installed 500 million times in the second half of 2013." writes Dong-Hwi.
Flash, in a way, had inspired the web. And now, there are web standards like HTML5 to continue it's legacy. In case you are a Flash developer, here is a course from freeCodeCamp to gear up on HTML5.
