I’ve been meaning to write an article on the death of flash for quite some time now, I’ve abandoned a number of drafts as the deluge of articles have hit the interwebs on the same topic.
So I thought it would be more interesting to give you a flash death watch tracking the number of sites abandoning flash:
Airlines
Virgin America – Flash Gone Bye Bye! (see here, here and the official statement here)
News & Media Sites
ABC – Official iPad App (see here, download here)
CBS – Reports coming in (here and here) of Flash-free video for the iPad
CNN – iPad Optimised Site (here)
Disney – iPad Optimised Site (here)
The Guardian – @tsmarsh informs me they use Brightcove so hope they’ll follow suit?
New York Times – iPad Optimised Site
TED – Completely Flash-Free version of their website (see here and the official announcement via twitter here)
Wall Street Journal – iPad Optimised Site + iPad App (download here)
Video Sites
Brightcove – Supplier for sites like Wired, Slate, Time & NYT so expect to see them go over soon too!
Netflix – Official iPad App (see here)
Youtube – iPad, iPhone optimised sites; HTML 5 experiment for everyone else!
Add anymore sites you know in the comments and I’ll update the list.
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