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Flash continues to sink away into the shadows:
Adobe is finally ready to say goodbye to Flash. In an announcement last night, Adobe said that it will now "encourage content creators to build with new web standards," such as HTML5, rather than Flash. It's also beginning to deprecate the Flash name by renaming its animation app to Animate CC, away from Flash Professional CC.
[...] By acknowledging that Flash is dying, Adobe is able to better position its animation tools for the future. Flash Professional CC is already capable of creating HTML5 content — in fact, it already represents a third of all content created in the app, according to Adobe. By taking up the name Animate CC, Adobe is able to sell Flash Professional CC as a general animation tool, rather than a tool geared toward Flash. The name change will take effect early next year.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:15AM
My thoughts exactly. At the time, it was very much needed. Heck, you couldn't make most games and apps any other way. What were you going to do? Create a JAVA game? That sounds painful and masochistic. At first they were the only ones trying to do it, and then of course, had to fuck it up Adobe style with proprietary formats and a security paradigm of, "you break this paper lock, we will tell on you".
Thank God it may finally be over. What I hope more than anything is that these tools allow easy conversion of older flash apps to the newer HTML5 based ones. It would be nice to clean up all the crap out there to the point where I may finally be able to start blocking flash at a network level even, or even better yet, not have Adobe code bases on my systems at all.
We're effectively retiring a heavy threat vector more infected than the most diseased hooker.
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