Flash, HTML5 and Open Web Standards
From the post:
Adobe has a history of pioneering and advancing industry standards. We embrace standards and, where none exist, we create them.
Flash has played a leading role in bringing new capabilities to the web. From audio and animation, to interactivity and video, Flash has helped push the web forward.
Today, open standards like HTML5 have matured and provide many of the capabilities that Flash ushered in. Our customers have clearly communicated that they would like our creative applications to evolve to support multiple standards and we are committed to doing that. So today we are announcing Animate CC, previously Flash Professional CC, which will be Adobe’s premier web animation tool for developing HTML5 content while continuing to support the creation of Flash content. Adobe Animate CC will be available in early 2016. In addition, Adobe will release an HTML5 video player for desktop browsers, which will complement Adobe’s support for HTML5 on mobile. [Visit the Primetime blog for more information].
I didn’t realize we lacked a standard for web insecurity. Certainly Adobe Flash set the standard for maximum cyberinsecurity. I don’t know that I would brag about it.
Adobe says that new standards aren’t mature in “web gaming and premium video” and so will keep promoting Flash for those use cases. I take that to mean standards geeks and implementation experts need to double down in both of those areas.
The sooner Flash is just an unpleasant memory the more secure we will all be in the present.
I first saw this in a Facebook post by Alex Brown.