Adobe Shockwave end of life
Adobe has been retiring Flash for a while now. After customer complaints, the software giant announced that it would be retiring Shockwave for Windows on April 9, 2019. The company had already phased out its Director authoring tool and Mac player in 2017, but this latest move marks the end of the web plugin for most. The only ones who will receive support beyond April 9 will be enterprise customers, whose contracts expire in 2022.
HTML5 & WebGL
Adobe's decision is not surprising as the Internet has moved on. As the company stated, "Shockwave usage has 'declined' as technologies like HTML5 and WebGL have taken over. It is clear that developers who still actively support their web applications would prefer to move to newer, truly universal frameworks and versions.".
What will be affected?
The lack of Shockwave may not be dramatically noticeable on most websites, but it could cause problems. Many older games and multimedia frameworks were built around Shockwave, which enabled the emergence of compelling web applications at a time when HTML was very mediocre and powerful, consumer-friendly smartphones were just dreams. Since many of the developers stopped supporting it a long time ago, the withdrawal of Shockwave is likely to render these applications useless.
Source: The Verge
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