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Adobe product management team has sent a briefing to Adobe’s partners describing the future direction of the development for multi-platform mobile application development tools.
From the security point of view, the biggest and the most welcome news is the announcement of the end of the development of Adobe Flash player for mobile platforms, except for critical security and bug fixes.
Unfortunately, even if the death of Flash for mobile platforms is imminent, Flash for desktop platforms is still very much alive. Adobe Flash vulnerabilities, together with Java virtual machine and Adobe Reader vulnerabilities, have been the most common causes for drive-by download malware infections.
It is yet uncertain what is the future of Flash on desktop, but let us hope that the widespread acceptance of HTML5 will drive Adobe in the right direction of killing Flash players on all remaining platforms.
The move comes after a pressure by iPhone and iPad users which have been frustrated by not being able to access websites built in Flash since Apple announced its decision to exclude Flash support from iOS based devices.
Was Steve Jobs right about Flash after all?
Adobe's move, after pressured by iPhone and iPad users unable to access websites built in Flash, is another perfect example of the tail wagging the dog.
"Was Steve Jobs right about Flash?"
I think your last sentence sums it up well: "The move comes after a pressure by iPhone and iPad users which have been frustrated by not being able to access websites built in Flash since Apple announced its decision to exclude Flash support from iOS based devices. "
So it's not a case of Jobs being right – more a case of Jobs forcing it through so he could be in total control – something Flash wouldn't give him.
maybe… waiting to see what we can do with html5… there will be a lot of work for web-re-designing flash site…
Strangely I though flash would be perfect for mobile… I was wrong !!!
So you're saying that replacing Flash with HTML5 is a good thing? I am far from being sure, as HTML5 itself brings its own huge pile of security problems. As I once read, "if you liked Adobe Flash, you'll love HTML5". Future will tell.
Please think a little bit about what caused Flash to be a target, together with Java and Adbobe reader – prevalence or product quality? Can we really consider that Java is a poor-quality technology? What will happen when HTML5 is prevalent?
Yearend = prediction time so I'll make one: we will see lots of security problems linked with HTML5 (and its implementation in browsers) for many many years to come.
Adobe Flash caused huge problems for people wanting to view videos here awhile back with version 10.2.152.26. I don't know if they ever got it fixed because I am still running an older versiom of Flash at this time. I realize there are security risks, but just being on Adobe's Flash Forum showed how angry people were that their upgrade wouldn't work, especially if you like viewing videos on YouTube. And, what did Adobe do to fix the problem? Nothing.