Microsoft Follows Apple - Says Doesn’t Need Flash For IE 10
In the recent post on Building Windows 8, the official Microsoft blog which tracks the development of the latest Operating System, it has been uncovered that Windows 8 will be launched with IE10 which will have Metro Style Browsing, which is plug-in free browsing.
Up until now Adobe Flash has been an integral and indispensable part of web-browsing, allowing users to access rich media content and stream media files on the internet. But since the dawn of HTML5, the fifth revision of HTML, which provides support for latest multimedia, more and more sites have become plug-in free. Only recently, Google launched their HTML5 Youtube site for phones. Even now, in case a site is unable to load a plug-in, it reverts back to the HTML5 arrangement.
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The reason for the paradigm shift from Flash to HTML5 is that Flash is more difficult to process and in some cases slows down the performance. In the age of smartphones and tablets, Flash fails to deliver . Former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, while launching iPad had referred to Flash as being insecure and under-performing for tablet devices and hence had kept it off Apple devices.
IE10 comes out as a Metro style app as well as a desktop app. The desktop app will continue to support plug-ins and the user can switch between HTML5 and script engines’ frame windows. Microsoft isn’t completely dropping Flash, but through IE10 they have hinted they can make-do without it.
Up until now Adobe Flash has been an integral and indispensable part of web-browsing, allowing users to access rich media content and stream media files on the internet. But since the dawn of HTML5, the fifth revision of HTML, which provides support for latest multimedia, more and more sites have become plug-in free. Only recently, Google launched their HTML5 Youtube site for phones. Even now, in case a site is unable to load a plug-in, it reverts back to the HTML5 arrangement.
The reason for the paradigm shift from Flash to HTML5 is that Flash is more difficult to process and in some cases slows down the performance. In the age of smartphones and tablets, Flash fails to deliver . Former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, while launching iPad had referred to Flash as being insecure and under-performing for tablet devices and hence had kept it off Apple devices.
IE10 comes out as a Metro style app as well as a desktop app. The desktop app will continue to support plug-ins and the user can switch between HTML5 and script engines’ frame windows. Microsoft isn’t completely dropping Flash, but through IE10 they have hinted they can make-do without it.
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