Adobe Halts Flash Plug-In Development For Mobile Platforms
November 10th, 2011
Via HuffingtonPost: On Wednesday morning, Adobe confirmed rumors that it will end development of its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers.
Danny Winokur, Adobe’s Vice President and General Manager of Interactive Development, announced the decision in a blog post, explaining that the company will develop native apps for mobile platforms and will focus on the HTML5 web standard, but that it will abandon new mobile browser plug-in development following the release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. Read the whole story here.
This is a significant development an a win for everyone.
2 Responses to “Adobe Halts Flash Plug-In Development For Mobile Platforms”
Tapio November 10th, 2011 at 12:44 pm #
I bet Steve is laughing in iCloud now
Andrew November 11th, 2011 at 2:46 pm #
With 99% of desktops with flash is far from dead in that respect. More here about why it happened. More here about it. http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/11/11/why-mobile-flash-died-an-adobe-employee-speaks-out// anyone with a flash site needs to re work their sites as future smartphones and tablets won’t ship with flash support built in.