dobe announced earlier today that they have decided to abandon their
Flash for Mobile software in favor of developing for HTML 5 support
instead. Much of the current reporting on this story is following the
idea that Adobe is finally conceding a loss to Steve Jobs following
their famous debate over the decision to exclude Flash support on iOS
devices.
Jobs decided that HTML 5 was a better alternative to supporting media and animation over the web. Apple has a long history of abandoning technology too soon, just as they did with Firewire. In reality however, while HTML 5 does provide many advances over the previous iterations of the ubiquitous markup language, it is still years away from being completed. The timeline for the technology is already behind schedule and is not expected to receive W3C Recommendation status until the year 2022. Until that time, a large majority of websites will continue to include Flash media. In fact, some websites wrap their entire content in Flash animations. Many ads are also presented using Flash, as annoying as such ads may be.
Jobs decided that HTML 5 was a better alternative to supporting media and animation over the web. Apple has a long history of abandoning technology too soon, just as they did with Firewire. In reality however, while HTML 5 does provide many advances over the previous iterations of the ubiquitous markup language, it is still years away from being completed. The timeline for the technology is already behind schedule and is not expected to receive W3C Recommendation status until the year 2022. Until that time, a large majority of websites will continue to include Flash media. In fact, some websites wrap their entire content in Flash animations. Many ads are also presented using Flash, as annoying as such ads may be.
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