Flash

a common example of a Flash website

the burger moves when hovered upon

Flash is a web-based video, animation, and interactivity software that enables awesome and diverse websites to be created. It consists of small animations coming to life when they are clicked on or hovered above; it consists of sound effects and music. Flash plugin became very popular because it made sure that this incredible content would appear the same for any and every computer and web browser. Despite how amazing Flash is, its popularity is dying. This is due to the fact that it is complex and has gone through many versions, and is hard to preserve for future generations. In 2007, Apple announced that the latest iphone would not support it because of these reasons. Steve Jobs said Flash was "insecure and resource intensive, and its plug in was overly proprietary". Apple shifted its focus from flash to HTML5 and Java script because they were based on open standards that web browsers could easily support. Apple's exclusion of Flash was a big deal because many website games had Flash. Luckily, apps that used Flash were still available. In 2011, Adobe also stopped allowing Flash, and it switched to Edge animate, which, was renamed Animate CC in 2015. Animate CC was announced to be the new web animation tool, and urged developers to abandon flash. By 2015, HTML 5 had evolved and was taking over the web. However, Flash hasn't been completely abandoned. Facebook is Flash's last hope, but it looks like Facebook is also going to give into HTML 5. Google Chrome recently announced that it is blocking Flash by default. Flash has not completely vanished from the web; animations and videos and parts of websites can still include flash, and you can still access it by clicking an opt button. However, not an entire website can be made from flash.

what shows up on flash websites

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