Airlines, Virgin America said the refusal of the use of Flash on your site. Instead, it will now be used in other technologies, such as CSS, and eventually planned to go to the HTML 5 standard, which supports animations, scalable vector graphics, and video without any plug-ins were.

This step in the company explained the desire to be closer to the users of the iPhone and other devices, which had previously been impossible to work with the site due to lack of support Flash. Many users receive useful information about flights and book tickets from your phone.

CIO Simhambhatla Ravi (Ravi Simhambhatla) admitted that Flash is too burdensome, even for desktop computers. Many visitors to the site plug-in Flash takes up to 40% of CPU time. Given that a fundamental need in Flash do not, the company decided to drop it.

This step is a major airline – wake-up call to Adobe and Flash. Many predicted a big problem iPad precisely because of the lack of it Flash, but if the other major sites will follow Virgin, may well be that this is Flash will give place to a more modern standard, HTML 5. Apple openly proclaims commitment is HTML 5, emphasizing the instability of Flash.

Via Electronista