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As someone who works with both Flash and HTML5, this news makes me sad.

Flash just works for much better. There are no cross-browser issues (except those that don't support it at all -- thanks, Apple). And ActionScript is a better language for building complex apps than JavaScript.

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The main problem with Flash is that it's completely proprietary, and therefore, as 4chan would say, OH EXPLOITABLE.

Worse is the fact that Adobe has been sitting with their thumbs wedged in their arses for months, in some cases, while known vulnerabilities were being exploited in the wild.

It's hard to imagine a better argument for moving away from closed technologies like this.

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