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Adobe has announced that it will stop developing Flash for browsing from mobile devices. The reason is that currently HTML5 it already works on these devices, in some cases exclusively. Therefore, it has become the best solution for displaying content on platforms Units. |
One of the first companies to abandon the Adobe format was Apple. In fact, Steve Jobs went so far as to explain why he hated Flash in May of last year in a open letter.
However, Adobe did not refer to this episode in the blog post in which Danny Winokur, Adobe's vice president and general manager of interactive development, announced the company's decision.
In it, he recalls that "for more than a decade, Flash has allowed the richest content to be created and used on the web." However, HTML5 now "is universally supported on very important mobile devices, in some cases exclusively." This, they explain, has made the language become "the best solution for creating and displaying content in the browser on mobile platforms."
Flash problems
But Flash was a technology one hundred percent owned by Adobe, and in addition to the fact that those who use it must reach an agreement to license it (even though it is free for end users), other types of problems have been known for a long time.
One of them is that due to its nature it is an avid consumer of CPU, something that users notice perfectly when they visit pages with embedded Flash elements: the consumption of the processor increases and sometimes the rest of the applications suffer the consequences.
But the worst problem was not that, but what this consumption implies in devices such as mobile phones or tablets: a shortening of the battery life, something that goes against the experience of using an autonomous device by drastically reducing its autonomy .
To this must be added that the latest versions have been widely criticized for being plagued with bugs and small bugs that made the browser "crash" and had to be restarted.
Tired of seeing that performance problems, consumption and bugs were not solved, and of depending on a platform 100% owned by Adobe, Steve Jobs himself published an open letter on the Apple website with the aim of explaining why they were not going to include Flash in the iPad.
The matter was a bit inflammatory, and the decision quite questioned, but Jobs was right: the iPad and the iPhone could live perfectly without Flash, since there were other standards for watching videos and many pages had gone from depending on Flash to use HTML5 more modern, compatible and open.
Critical errors
Despite this, they claim to feel "excited" with the idea and will continue to work "with the main players in the HTML5 community, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and RIM."
They also announced that while they will not continue to develop Flash to work with mobile browsers after the release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and the BlackBerry Playbook, they will continue to provide security updates and fix critical bugs for existing configurations.
However, this does not mean that the company plans to abandon Flash entirely, but rather that it will work in places where it believes it can have “the greatest impact on the industry”, such as games or video.
Source: Abc.es