Blog 146 First New Blog post end of Flash, See Blog 68 for development history trail using Moonfruit

KeefH Web Designs
Nov 10, 2021
3 min read

Updated: May 23

by keef & annie hellinger 16 Dec 2020, 15.26 pm Blog post end of Flash

This Blog has been set up as a template in advance of the start of 2021 to try and look as similar as possible to the existing motorhome-travels blogs that came before it. They all used a predefined blog coding module which only works under Flash and since this ends at the end of December 2020 I am looking to try and replace manually as best I can. Social media buttons are easy, the tags may be a little more tricky but to make it in keeping and save dosh rather than use an obvious engine like WordPress I will construct and test out myself. My intention is to have 5 blogs per page with a "back to index list" and "older / newer" buttons to enable tabbing backwards and forwards thru the Blogs as they increase, wish me luck! I'm gonna need it *smile*

Blog post end of Flash - Celebrate the dawn of a new blogging era as Flash finally shuffles off into retirement, taking its crashes, freezes and general mischief with it. This cheerful post marks the moment your site steps into the modern world, loading faster, behaving better and no longer demanding a sacrificial reboot. A light‑hearted welcome to smoother browsing, happier readers and a blog that no longer relies on a technology last updated when dinosaurs roamed the internet.

NEW WEBSITES (2026)

Find the latest on DECADES OF TRAVEL or our TRAVEL VIDEO BLOG sites

HISTORY OF FLASH

Adobe Flash was once the backbone of interactive websites, online games, animations and early video streaming. In the late 1990s and 2000s, it powered everything from quirky web cartoons to YouTube’s first video player. Flash worked by running a browser plug‑in that handled graphics, animation and scripting — impressive for its time, but increasingly problematic as the web evolved.

The decline of Flash began around 2010, when major security flaws, performance issues and battery‑draining behaviour became impossible to ignore. Mobile devices struggled with it, and Flash simply wasn’t built for the touchscreen era. The turning point came when Apple refused to support Flash on the iPhone and iPad, arguing that it was insecure, unstable and inefficient. This decision effectively signalled the beginning of the end.

Meanwhile, modern open web standards — HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript — matured rapidly. They offered smoother performance, better security, no plug‑ins and full compatibility across devices. Developers quickly shifted to these technologies, leaving Flash looking outdated and increasingly unsafe.

By 2017, Adobe officially announced Flash’s retirement, giving developers three years to migrate. On 31 December 2020, Flash reached its end‑of‑life. Browser support was removed shortly after, and Adobe even built a “kill switch” to prevent old versions from running.

Flash died because the web outgrew it: it was insecure, resource‑hungry, closed‑source and incompatible with modern devices. Its retirement marked a major step toward a faster, safer, plug‑in‑free internet — and the end of an era for anyone who remembers dancing hamsters and early web games.

See Blog 68 for the history trail of how this set of Blogs developed whilst using Flash at Moonfruit

MOONFRUIT TO WIX FOR MY WEBSITES VIA YELL

Update 20/5/26 Yell stopped supporting migrated from Moonfruit sites in Oct 2025

Update 10/11/21 Moonfruit is migrating to Wix for editing and development therefore I have the opportunity to merge all my blogs from 2 sites and 3 different mechanisms into one coherent and standard Blog format with proper tags , index categories and much smarter mobile formats. So quite a few of the older "search mechanisms" will go