Adobe will still work with Microsoft and Google to maintain Flash's compatibility and security inside of Web browsers. That focus will not change despite encouraging developers to shift away from Flash. Instead of killing off Flash - there are some good reasons to keep it around - Adobe is shifting to make room for new Web standards.Īdobe already commits its energies to security and regularly patches flaws in Flash Player to stay ahead of attacks. The malvertising boom may have played a role in Google's decision to no longer Auto-Play Flash content in Chrome. In recent months, visitors to major Web brands were infected by malware pushed by malicious online advertisements playing on the sites. There are plenty of "Flash is dead" stories - partly because smartphones don't support the technology, not to mention all the security issues associated with the plug-in. Much of the HTML5 functionality in those products - Edge Reflow, Edge Muse, and Edge Inspect, to name a few - is being folded into other Adobe tools. The company already offers slew of stand-alone HTML5 design and development tools under the Edge brand. The fact that Adobe is publicly admitting Flash is no longer the dominant Web technology is significant. While HTML5 is great for Web video, there's still a gap between what Flash can do and what new standards can do for Web gaming and "premium video," the company said. The Web standard plays video on any device through a browser, and Flash is absent on mobile devices. There's still plenty of room for Flash, despite the popularity of HTML5. So long as they want to keep working with Flash, Adobe will maintain the tools and technology. Whether or not Flash ultimately dies - ever - depends entirely on Web developers. In fact, a third of all content created in Flash Professional is HTML5-based, Adobe said. Adobe's announcement is actually a nomenclature change acknowledging two realities: There are multiple ways to create animations and applications, and the authoring tool is capable of delivering more than Flash content alone.
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