Through the official blog said, Adobe, that cease to fully support Flash technology, and Flash Player only 2020 year. In this way, we can talk about the prolongation of life withering platform.
Recall, two years ago (in 2015th) Adobe обратилась к веб-разработчикам с просьбой отказаться от устаревающего формата, replacing it with a more modern technology, eg, HTML5.
And now, after this time the company has slowed somewhat with the final murder Flash. The thing is, what, no matter what, this format is still widely used in the gaming industry, video and Education. The company convinced, что таким пользователям Flash все еще нужно около трех лет, to switch completely to play the content using the aforementioned HTML5, WebAssembly, WebGL etc..
Until then, Adobe and its partners in the face of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple will maintain compatibility and security of the content based on Flash.