

We will also review the most common use cases, where they can substitute Flash Player.


Let’s have a look at some examples of ready-made solutions from one of the leading SaaS providers. As Flash Player’s main function was to display multimedia content on the webpages, it made it possible to translate this feature into reality and thus shaped the Web interface we experience today. Interactive website functionality has always been and still remains one of the main requests while developing a website. However, in the past decade Flash Player was becoming more and more criticized for its low performance, high battery consumption on mobile devices, some security vulnerabilities discovered in the software, and more. It was a common format for web games, animations, multimedia, and interface elements embedded in web pages. It was distributed all through this time as a freeware, gaining its popularity and acquiring a large user base. It started as a simple animation software back in 2005 – the beginning of the internet era – and helped to shape the Web as we know it today. After the End-of-Life date – Decem– Adobe stops issuing Flash Player updates as well as security patches and starts blocking any content from running in Flash Player beginning Janudue to the user safety issues.
