The South African Revenue Service has published its very own Web browser, with support for Adobe Flash, to allow e-filing taxpapers to continue submitting tax forms electronically.
The is meant as a stopgap measure until Sars can move to more modern HTML5 technology in all of its forms.
Sars was presented with a problem by Adobe’s decision to kill off its Flash Player software, which was integrated into popular browsers such as Google’s Chrome. The tax authority has since moved some forms to HTML5, but others are still only available in Flash. It’s surprising it has taken Sars so long to replace the legacy forms given that Adobe announced in mid-2017 that it would stop supporting Flash Player by the end of 2020.
Chinese Railway Dispatch System Crashes After Adobe Flash Stops Running
A Chinese railway depot recently lost access to its local dispatching system after U.S.-based software company Adobe stopped supporting the Flash Player program. The local railway system was paralyzed as a result.
The depot’s IT workers chronicled their attempt to fix the technical issue on Chinese social media, written in a war diary style.
The post went viral after tech-savvy netizens noticed that the IT workers solved the glitch by installing an older version of Flash from a pirated operating system.
The post has since been deleted.
Adobe Flash is finally gone and with it, the weird spontaneity of the early 2000s Internet
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It’s a deadline that’s been looming for the best part of three years, but now there’s no avoiding it. As the end of 2020 draws nearer, so too does the end-of-life date for Adobe Flash Player, the browser plugin that was once the king of the Internet.
Google has released Chrome 88 as the latest stable version of their cross-platform web browser without any support for Adobe Flash Player. Flash reached its official end of life on December 31, when Adobe officially stopped supporting the software. On January 12, Adobe also began blocking content from playing inside Flash. Apple and Mozilla have also stopped supporting Flash, and Microsoft is scheduled to end support later this month, reports ZDNet. According to web technology survey site W3Techs, only 2.2 per cent of today s websites use Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 per cent figure recorded at the start of 2011.
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