Adobe Overboard!{4}
Summary:
Adobe is not going down with its own ship, as the move towards a HTML5 standard becomes more and more of a reality for everything online, adobe moves in the same direction by developing tools that would help make complex animations in HTML5 easier that could only be made with FLASH. The new Adobe EDGE software would help facilitate this transition by simplifying the coding conversions and assisting in animations in HTML5. Flash is still going to be the stronger player when it comes to games and videos but HTML5 will be better suited for other simpler tasks. there is some hope that eventually HTML5 will replace Flash, and while Adobe has dumped its mobile support it will not stand idly by and watch Flash be replaced. Adobe Edge is Adobe’s way of saying “our format might get replaced but we still have the tools for making flash style animation easy in HTML5.” if anything the people who are happy for this will be the Apple community who have famously suffered when flash was not supported for the iOS platform.
Response:
its great to see that Adobe is evolving with the internet instead of taking a side seat and watching their product go up in virtual flames. flash has been around forever and had provided us with our internet content in many forms. so now that they are working towards the new standard means that they are invested in the future of the internet. in all reality they could have been stubborn about it and not done anything, but that would have done nothing for their reputation of being great software developers. so thank you Adobe for doing everything you can, you could have been left behind but thanks for tagging along.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal. (2011, November 09). Adobe Ends Mobile Flash Development, Report. PCWorld. Retrieved January 19, 2011, from http://www.pcworld.com/article/243459/adobe_ends_mobile_flash_development_report.html
David Daw. (2011, August 01). Adobe Edge: What You Need to Know. PCWorld. Retrieved January 19, 2011, from http://www.pcworld.com/article/237043/adobe_edge_what_you_need_to_know.html
Jan 20, 2012 @ 18:13:13
Adobe has already been a strong dealer in development and production tools for both PCs and Macs, so I do believe that they can prosper with a HTML5 development tool. Perhaps Adobe can see Flash being dropped from mobile platforms as an opportunity to invest in new ways to improve their development/production products such as entering the hardware field. Maybe they can improve Adobe Acrobat Reader. I don’t know why, but I just don’t like dealing with that program.
Jan 21, 2012 @ 22:11:38
Adobe will be celebrating their thirtieth anniversary this year, so they have been working in the IT field longer than the World Wide Web has been around. Obviously, they have proven that they have the ability to adapt as the world of business changes over time. Initially, they focused on multimedia applications for standalone desktops and LANS. As the WWW became more prevalent, they moved into developing multimedia applications that were designed to be used on the Web. Given their track record of adapting, I am sure they will prove to be a viable and important player in the world of HTML5.
Jan 22, 2012 @ 13:39:44
I hope this will be implemented to epic proportions. I always get annoyed when a lot of media websites have fancy graphics that don’t work on my phone. Wix.com actually makes fancy websites with flash, but now they have a mobile option to design your secondary site for that. I wonder if they will make a switch too, or what they are currently using to get those mobile sites made. Hmmm.
Jan 22, 2012 @ 21:12:46
Well, this article gets me kind of confused because i just read an article saying that HTML5 does not need plug-ins. Then, I searched for more information and found that Flash is considered a plug-in. These two articles seem to contradict each other and it’s weird specially since they come from the same online magazine.