#AdobeFlash (@AdobeAnimate etc.) to be 'Replaced By' (according to @GoogleChrome) #HTML5 - What's #HTML? What about the First Four? Huh? @Wikipedia @Verge @FB_Engineering #Hyper- #Text #Language #Textual

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My Google Chrome is dropping Adobe (no-longer using it by default, as it's not usable anymore starting in December 2020), and I don't feel it 'informs us'-enough that "They are 'replacing it' with HTML5 ...

I mean; GC repeatedly 'alerts' users that Adobe Flash won't work as its default, but I had to DIG (or 'search through the page, click a hyperlink, look through that page, click another hyperlink ...') to find out "what they're using instead."

'The name of the program they're using' (below-hyperlinked to GC's explanation of 'why programmers are switching to it') is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our mind-palaces stand ...
"HTML5" stands for "HyperText Markup Language (Five)." 
The prefix “Hyper-” is built on ancient words that mean "Over."
In place of the verbal connectives that are used in normal text, such as topic or transition sentences, hypertext connects nodes ... through links. The primary purpose of a link is to connect one card, node or frame and another card, frame or node that enables the user to jump from one to another. [David H. Jonassen, "Hypertext/hypermedia," 1989]
The word “Text” is built on ancient words that mean "Weave, Fabricate, Make |Wicker- or |Wattle-Work." 
 An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns -- but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, which means cloth. [Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style"]
The word “Language” is built on ancient words that mean "Tongue" (Manner of Expression). 
Century Dictionary (1897) defines this as: "The whole body of uttered signs employed and understood by a given community as expressions of its thoughts; the aggregate of words, and of methods of their combination into sentences, used in a community for communication and record and for carrying on the processes of thought."
I (an amateur 'coder') think of HTML as 'the "code" (not exactly "the 1's and 0's," but more like "the code-words in the programming of the text & pictures & characters & video & audio") behind a lot of online-content.' 


Facebook Games has switched from Flash to HTML5 (I don't know how many of the current games have also done so, but I suspect they will as all the new games should), just like Facebook's moved to HTML5-video



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