Pas de Flash pour Windows 8

David Adams sur OSnews:

Microsoft announced during the build conference, and Steve Sinofsky reiterated in a blog posting that: « For the web to move forward and for consumers to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free. The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web. » Sinfosky goes on explain why Microsoft will not include Flash and why it’s no longer needed.

Il ajoute:

This is good news for the web. I do think Adobe has had enough time to make Flash work properly on mobile, and they simply failed. Since the release of the iPhone, Adobe promised us a working Flash on mobile, and now, four years down the line, it’s still not there. Between then and now, we’ve seen entirely new mobile operating systems rise, we’ve seen an entire Windows release, and another one being made, several Mac OS X releases, and so on. Yet, Flash still isn’t ready?

You had your chance, Adobe. You failed.

Bon, je pense que cette fois, c’est clair, non ? Apple et Microsoft, même combat. C’est une petite victoire mais qui risque bien de définitivement faire disparaitre Flash de nos vies.

C’est en tout cas bien plus réjouissant que l’annonce du support d’iOS par Flash Media Server 4.5 d’Adobe, qui certes va dans le bon sens mais n’amènera pas les gens à abandonner Flash, bien au contraire. Pour faire simple et clair, FMS 4.5 diffusera des vidéos HTML5 aux devices iOS, et des vidéos Flash aux machines le supportant. Sauf que le failback fonctionne dans le mauvais sens: sur mon Mac volontairement sans plugin Flash, FMS 4.5 ne me diffusera pas du HTML5 mais m’invitera à installer Flash Player. C’est moche.