12 Nov 11
Clarifications on Flash Player for Mobile Browsers, the Flash Platform, and the Future of Flash →
Mike Chambers talks about Adobe’s motivations in dropping Flash for Mobile in favor of HTML5. It starts off as a rationale but turns into a valedictory for Flash:
“A lot of the things that you have done via Flash in the past, will increasingly be done via HTML5 and CSS3 directly in the browser.”
Adobe is taking a lot of heat for this, but backing the HTML5 standard is the right thing to do.