New Google Chrome 55 will boost use of HTML5 over Adobe Flash:
Flash and Chrome
– August 9, 2016. “Adobe Flash Player played a pivotal role in the
adoption of video, gaming and animation on the Web. Today, sites
typically use technologies like HTML5, giving you improved security,
reduced power consumption and faster
page load times.
Going forward, Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5. Here’s
what that means for you. Today, more than 90% of Flash on the web loads
behind the scenes to support things like page analytics. This kind of
Flash slows you down, and starting this September,
Chrome 53 will begin to block it.
HTML5 is much lighter and faster, and publishers are switching over to
speed up page loading and save you more battery life. You’ll see an
improvement in responsiveness and efficiency for many sites. This is
similar to a change we made last September, when some Flash content
became click-to-play with Chrome 42...