{"id":3942,"date":"2013-08-23T15:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T09:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fusioncharts.com\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:06:34","slug":"a-final-goodbye-to-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioncharts.com\/blog\/a-final-goodbye-to-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"A Final Goodbye to Flash: The Move to HTML5 Charting"},"content":{"rendered":"A charting component was born eleven years ago. FusionCharts was the name of the application, and it was written in Adobe Flash (then Macromedia Flash). Flash was a pretty cool technology back then, but now that we’re in 2013, with modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.\r\n\r\nWhile we released our JavaScript (HTML5) version in 2010, we continued to work on our Flash version at the same time, devoting equal time and effort to it for two reasons. First, we wanted to ensure that users could access the chart even on smartphones without modern browsers \u2014 these browsers didn’t support HTML5 at the time, but they did support Flash. Second, our product was used by over 20,000 organizations and half a million developers, and not all of them could make the transition overnight. They should not be required to. But that shouldn’t stop them from having the most up-to-date charting information. So we spent three years working on both the JavaScript (HTML5) and Flash versions concurrently.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHowever, modern browsers are now found on the vast majority of smartphones, and the majority of our customers have made the switch. It is time to break free from the shackles of the past. It’s time to bid Flash farewell.\r\n\r\nThank you for everything, Flash. Hello, JavaScript \u2014 we’ve got things to do and places to go.\r\n

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