[OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

[Colin Holgate]

After Flash Player 11.1 ships they will continue to provide security updates, and it could be years before Android OS is changed in a way that breaks plugins. One thing it will do though is encourage some people to make mobile browser pieces with HTML5, which while being quite hard to do (with a fraction of the Flash features), it would mean that those pages will work on iOS too. So, it will make Android seem less special in the end, but won't have a immediate impact.

One small impact on LiveCode is that Adobe will put more effort into making AIR mobile apps (that you make with Flash) better, and have more features. Although LiveCode wasn't competing with the Flash plugin at all, on mobile that is, it is competing as to what tool developers will use for making apps. The more improvements that Adobe make on AIR, the more it stacks up against LiveCode as a tool to use.

But I wouldn't worry, Adobe bring out new features at a much slower rate than RunRev, although the Cloud subscription deal may speed that up.


On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:26 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

> THIS IS BIG NEWS.