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For some reason, people seem to have a personal vendetta against Flash. Adobe is first and foremost a company that makes and sells tools. Flash or HTML5, they m

For some reason, people seem to have a personal vendetta against Flash. Adobe is first and foremost a company that makes and sells tools. Flash or HTML5, they make money either way. I don't know any company that buys Flash without buying it bundled with Photoshop and Illustrator. Flash saved us from Real Player and WMP and gave us YouTube. HTML5 is saving us from obnoxious full-Flash sites that drain our batteries, but it won't save us from obnoxious animated ads. And those obnoxious Flash websites will turn into obnoxious HTML5 sites that screw with our scroll wheel or have awkward UI. So I really wonder what everyone is celebrating.

melling 15y ago
People are celebrating because the move to open standards is accelerating . When I read reviews about the Chromebook having poor Flash support, it's just a sad reminder that companies need Adobe's help/support to build another platform. Adobe actually is a good company but they can't spend the necessary time supporting Flash on every new platform that appears. Flash is only ever going to be good on a couple of major platforms. Building the web around open standards gives many companies a chance to build the next great Internet device.