From InfoWorld: Apple's Safari is driving another nail in the coffin of Adobe Flash by no longer telling websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 that the plug-in is installed on users' Macs.
The Mac maker is planning similar measures with other plug-ins like Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime. This move will force websites with both plug-in and HTML5-based media implementations to use their HTML5, it said.
When Safari 10, the new version of its browser, ships this fall, it will by default behave as though common legacy plug-ins on users' Macs are not installed, wrote Apple software engineer Ricky Mondello in a post.
"On websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 implementations of content, Safari users will now always experience the modern HTML5 implementation, delivering improved performance and battery life," he added.
For most websites that detect that Flash isn't available, but don't have an HTML5 fallback, a message that "Flash isn't installed" will be displayed with a link to download Flash from Adobe. When a user clicks on one of the links, Safari will advise them that the plug-in is already installed and allow them to activate it just one time or every time the website is visited. The default option will be to activate it only once.
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