Adobe announced on their official blog that they will drop support of their Flash plugin on future Android devices ( Android 4.1 Jelly Bean). What that means is that Android device users will soon face the same problems iPhone users experience when they visit a Flash powered website – it won’t work!
So why the move? Forgetting any pressure Apple put on the subject by always boycotting Flash on their iPhone and iPad devices, the move does make sense. Flash is heavy, resource hungry and requires constant updating so for mobile devices it is a pain. Poor spec’ed devices performed poorly and no doubt Adobe bore the brunt of most of the complaints. Instead of fighting against bad devices Adobe can focus on their Adobe AIR platform which is optimized for mobile devices.
Good old HTML, JavaScript and not to forget the emergence of HTML5 will need to fill the gap left by the slow retreat of mobile Flash.
But what does it mean for DecoNetwork users? Well, nothing! As you probably already know we made the good decision many moons ago to not use Flash in our platform so everything from our online designer and down is 100% non-flash based.
Now you can sleep well at night 
Not strictly true because you use Flash in the marketing tool widgets and dashboard analytics!
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for your comments. I was referring to the front end of the website where your customers interact. That’s most important as they are most likely to access your site on a device. With regards to the marketing Flash Widget – This tool is designed for display on other websites so you can substitute that for the iFrame or RSS feed display if you have concerns about using any forms of Flash.
P.S. A quick side note but the website you listed as part of your email address sales@ doesn’t seem to exist. Not sure if you entered it with a mistake or not.
I agree Brenden. I would compare Flash tool in DecoNetwork to the nachos which you are getting for free each time you go to the Mexican restaurant and order the main entry. It is a nice addition, but if you don’t like nachos you just leave them on the table untouched. After all, this is not the main entry you are paying for but just the nice “free” bonus. However, it is completely different story if that Mexican restaurant would sell those plain nachos as a main entry; fortunately DecoNetwork is not doing that
I think that the decision to drop flash is a bit early because there still a lot of flash sites. When most of the Internet move to html5, then it’ll be high time.
Yeah I got to agree with you. I understand why, but it is short notice. I could just imagine the panic in our users if they thought their site might loose another channel. But our designer is not flash based so no worries here but there is still a lot of the net using flash.