Sometimes if you can't beat 'em, it's better to join 'em. Take what Adobe is doing in the HTML5 space, even though momentum behind standards-based HTML5 presents a serious challenge to Adobe's own Flash rich Internet plug- in technology. Adobe's Flash has been used to present videos and multimedia on the Web. But the technology is proprietary and leverages Adobe's own Action Script programming language. With HTML5, developers can use just use the open JavaScript language, cascading style sheets (CSS), and of course HTML to build applications.
The HTML5 "family" features a set of specifications that also includes CSS3, Canvas 2D tags, and Web Sockets, for inter browser communications. Showing it can play in the HTML5 arena, Adobe has not only dropped development of the mobile version of the Flash Player in favor of HTML5 and Adobe's AIR, but also is working on additions to CSS and pitching tools for HTML5. The company is developing Adobe Edge, a tool for creating animated content using Web standards, says Paul Trani, an Adobe developer evangelist. Edge uses HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Adobe also backs HTML5 capabilities in its Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Illustrator tools.
Additionally, Adobe's PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build enable building of cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript. Despite Adobe's HTML5 strategy, Flash is not going away, argues the developer Ruskoff: "Any of the fanboys that say, 'Flash is dead, HTML5 rules,' you know they're speaking without knowledge of the real world." HTML5, he notes, has not even been ratified, despite its adoption in draft form in every major desktop and mobile browser. For Adobe, moving to HTML5 while still keeping Flash around makes sense -- after all, it can sell tools to both audiences. Over time, though, it appears a certainty that HTML5 will grow while Flash will fade.
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