<i>"Today's internet content is dependant on Flash," said Grønvold. "If you remove Flash you do not have today's internet."</i><p>That may be for some folks I guess. I run Safari with all plugins disabled and I'm able to do anything I want to do on the internet. To me, Flash is irrelevant.
> "Because eventually we will have the canvas [of the web] in good quality and we'll have the toolsets to use that canvas in the quality but in the foreseeable future, 18 months or so, Flash is not going away and it is critical."<p>What? Canvas of the web? Use it in the quality? Is this regarding <canvas>?
"Opera's growing influence in browsers has been illustrated by the huge take-up of the Opera browser for iPhone"<p>Really? I don't know a single person who has switched to Opera on iPhone.
Title is misleading.<p>Opera is not joining jobs and banning Flash. Opera is still supporting Flash.<p>They just said they they agreed that it is not the future and that canvas would replace it on the web.
Seems like a sane sentiment, although I personally think flash still has a place. I don't imagine that five years from now we'll be looking at flash as a relic.