New Adobe Edge Cozies Up to HTML5, Leaves Flash Alone and Lonely
by Eric Limer | 11:27 am, August 1st
It appears that along with everyone else, (read: Apple) Adobe is finally making moves to abandon Flash as well. Adobe’s new tool, Edge, still encourages the same “flashy” content you’ve grown to love, except that if Edge does it, it’ll be CSS, Javascript or HTML5, not Flash. While it may be easy, or tempting, to call Edge a Flash-killer, Edge is not intended to put Flash out of its misery or even to encourage developers to switch over to HTML5, but rather open up a new development path while Flash development presumably hits a wall.
For the time being, there are a number of things Flash can do better than HTML5, which makes it an important part of the web, so it’s not going to completely disappear any time soon. Still, Adobe seems to be well aware that developers will eventually abandon Flash for HTML5 and while they don’t intend to expedite that process, they are doing what they can to grab a piece of the new pie.
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