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4.9% of Websites Use Flash, Down From 28.5% in 2011 (bleepingcomputer.com)
Web makers continue to ditch the infamous Flash for other safer, improved technologies. In 2011, more than 28.5 percent of websites used Flash in their code, a figure technology survey site W3Techs estimates to have dropped to 4.9 percent today. BleepingComputer: The number confirms Flash's decline, and a reason why Adobe has decided to retire the technology at the end of 2020. A decline from 28.5 percent to 4.9 percent doesn't look that bad, but we're talking about all Internet sites, not just a small portion of Top 10,000 or Top 1 Million sites. Taking into account the sheer number of abandoned sites on today's Internet, the decline is quite considerable, and W3Techs' findings confirm similar statistics put out by a Google security engineer in February.
Because that's the only place.... my friend.... sees flash these days.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Newgrounds, Kongregate, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, Animutation Portal, and the like still use Flash to present vector animations and games whose authors either can't be located or lack the time=money to remake them from scratch using HTML5.
A WebM or MPEG-4 video is not a close substitute for a vector animation because a video's file size is roughly an order of magnitude larger, eating into the viewer's cap. (Though most devices with a built-in cellular radio can't play Flash in the first place, home wireless ISPs impose a monthly Internet data transfer quota even on desktop devices.) It's an even worse substitute for a game, unless it's a narrative-driven game that can be fully experienced in a playthrough video.
I don't gripe so much when I come across a "legacy" usage, something that's obviously been around for years. I recognize how it can be difficult to get the bosses to spend money to "fix what ain't broke" in their eyes.
But recently I went for the first time to try out Comcast's site where you can remote control your DVR. That is a pretty new site, definitely just the last few years, and of course it's all built on Flash. For a huge corp with lots of resources to make such a decision just baffles me.
Comcast has a reputation to uphold. They can't just start doing things which are secure or customer friendly; people will start to think they're a reputable company.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Say I want to make an animutation that plays back using a vector animation technology other than Flash Player. Which software would you recommend for this?
I would recommend using your time to do something else.
How would someone who has submitted a work to such a portal convert a Flash animation to an HTML5 vector animation,* or a Flash game to an HTML5 game?
That's easy: don't. It's a stupid waste of time, and ultimately not very important in the grand scheme of things.
Never let it be said that I can't answer a rhetorical question.
In all seriousness, your line of questioning is roughly akin to "What kind of wood sealer should I use on the deck chairs of this sinking ship?" You think you're being insightful, but you're really just protesting the inevitable death of flash with petty, meaningless points. Move on. Get over it. Do something useful.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.