Flash, HTML5 or Combination of both?

**unfaithfulsfan** · 18 July 2015, 12:29 AM

Received a question from an intern at another municipality's web design firm about a widget I'm using on mine. After thinking about it, I'm not sure how to answer it.

I've been using Designer Pro for a few years now and just upgraded to X10 a few months back. The widget he was asking about is a photo slideshow with embedded links in the images. Would these be Flash-based (my first thought) or HTML5, since Flash is on the way out or so it seems?

Thanks!
Jack

**gwpriester** · 18 July 2015, 01:23 AM

Flash is well on its way out. Firefox has refused to display any Flash based video and Apple has refused to support Flash on mobile devices.

I think the more recent Xara video/slideshow content is non-Flash.

**Egg Bramhill** · 18 July 2015, 08:36 AM

Gary is correct. If you double click to edit the widget it gives information re the widget and usually states this is pure DHTML (Not Flash).

**pauland** · 18 July 2015, 09:10 AM

I'm not going to argue the case for flash, but I'm not sure that the below is true

Firefox has refused to display any Flash based video

A few days ago Mozilla put a warning up for flash content in FF, but that has now been removed.