<story><title>The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising</title><url>http://arc.applause.com/2015/07/14/flash-vulnerability-html5-replacement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cwyers</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s say that we can get every major site to stop using Flash going forward, and that we can paper over it with HTML5 and polyfills. Great.&lt;p&gt;What do we do about the historic content that will never, ever be ported to anything other than Flash? Every thing on Kongregate? Newgrounds? Homestarrunner.com? Desktop Tower Defense? We&amp;#x27;re talking about taking a decade&amp;#x27;s worth of interactive web content and declaring it no longer relevant. Without a plan for preserving that material and continuing to make it accessible, I think that killing off Flash rather than deprecating it is a terrible idea.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising</title><url>http://arc.applause.com/2015/07/14/flash-vulnerability-html5-replacement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>velcro</author><text>A colleague of mine was a very vocal anti-Flash proponent - he used to say that he&amp;#x27;s tired of his laptop overheating from those 5 stupid animated Flash banners (on his favourite news site).&lt;p&gt;The irony of it is - I&amp;#x27;m not sure 5 animated WebGL banners would keep his laptop any cooler...</text></comment>