Google will start blocking Flash content in Chrome

We have all heard this before and at the last minute the movement is pulled in favor of a patch to fix some bug in the Flash system.  Thing is Flash is huge when it comes to how people consume their media and if Google starts blocking it and there is no replacement for the YouTube player then a good portion of the Chrome userbase will be moving to another browser.

That is of course assuming they kill the plugin completely or just not allow it to be the default plugin for showing certain content.

Google calls this approach “HTML5 by Default.” Chrome has shipped with a bundled version of Flash player for several years now, and it will continue to do so. This was never an endorsement of Flash, merely a recognition of the security risk. At least by bundling the latest version with Chrome, users wouldn’t be running old and insecure builds. When Google flips the switch on this plan, that plugin won’t load automatically Flash content when you just happen across it. That’s only feasible because you see much less Flash on the web now.

I like HTML5, it is a good framework for doing things on the web.  In the early days when I was building websites if someone had an issue it was "What browser are you using?" and "What plugin do you have installed?"  Now with HTML5 the plugin problems are gone but bring up issues of installed software and an endless list of things that could be going wrong.

Luckily HTML5 implementations are pretty standardized which is good for making things work and bad for when things go wrong.

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