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With this as an (awesome) reality, I can see Adobe Flash CS5 merely being an authoring tool for web animations and interactions. The end technology is largely i
by alttab 17y ago
With this as an (awesome) reality, I can see Adobe Flash CS5 merely being an authoring tool for web animations and interactions. The end technology is largely irrelevant as long as most devices (mobile or otherwise) can access it.
Adobe as an IDE only in the future?
- watty 17y agoAdobe does specialize in IDEs. They don't make money selling the Flash player but it was a requirement at the time because no other technology allowed them to create rich content. It'll be interesting to see if this works with advanced animations and games.
- jacobolus 17y agoWait a sec. “At the time”, the company making Flash was called Macromedia. Adobe, at the same time, was investing in the open-specced (through W3C) SVG format, as output for its similar tools. But you’re right, both Macromedia and Adobe sold/sell tools, not platforms. (Frankly, SVG is still better than Canvas for many purposes; I hope someday Microsoft decides to implement some of it in IE.)
- daleharvey 17y agoexactly, this is what adobe (macromedia) should have done 10 years ago. Instead of trying to lock everyone to the swf format, become the best publishing tools for web content. better late than never.
- talklittle 17y agoI would think that from a business perspective, now is the perfect time for Adobe to make this move. 10 years ago and they would have tons of lost revenues from competing solutions. That is, locking people to a proprietary format worked hugely in their benefit in this case. Now as Flash is finally starting to see its last legs is a good time to change their focus.
- zyb09 17y agoExcept this wasn't possible until very recently?
- daleharvey 17y agoit would have been possible 10 years ago if swf was an open format and not a closed plugin.
- wmf 17y agoEven if SWF was open, I doubt browsers would have implemented it since SWF doesn't really fit the spirit of the Web.
- reitzensteinm 17y agoThey should have done it for the benefit of who? They had fantastic success locking everyone into the swf format. Sold a ton of very highly priced software. Got acquired by Adobe, probably in no small part due to this lock in. I'm completely in favour of web openness, and I'm personally stung by the SWF monopoly, but I find the assertion that Macromedia should have given up a huge part of their business advantage just to help general web openness ridiculous.