You know a technology’s future doesn’t look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. In August ...

For all the talk of how HTML5 will be the future of the Web, and how, in particular, it will replace Flash for rich interactive and animated content, the reality is that the technology is out of reach ...

Adobe on Tuesday delivered an update to its Creative Cloud, but the biggest switch may be that it renamed its Flash Professional CC to Adobe Animate CC in a move that highlights the pivot from Flash ...

As if Adobe's Flash Player needed another nail in its coffin, it nevertheless received yet another one this weekend from Facebook. The world's largest social playground announced that it recently ...

Finally, after years of external pressure, Adobe announced a timeline for the decommissioning of its Flash platform. The company has been working with the web browser teams at Google, Microsoft, ...

Despite initial comments in support of HTML5 as an option standard, Adobe has taken action to sabotage the open specification in an effort to support its existing position with Flash. Update: Adobe's ...

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 ...

A developer using Sencha Touch reports that translating large existing websites built with Adobe Flash to HTML5 mobile sites accessible to iOS users can now be performed by 1 or 2 people in just three ...

Ding dong, Flash is dead. Well, not quite — Adobe’s announcement that it will now “encourage content creators to build with new Web standards” such as HTML5 is a direct blow against Flash, but Flash ...

Given that Flash is widely considered an internet blight, it's hard to imagine a time when it was actually cool. But in the day, the app was the only way to make interesting animated pages, so it ...

The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...

Only three weeks after releasing Dreamweaver CS5, it releases an update to add support for HTML5. It's not Flash or nothing at Adobe. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...