Looks like a desire to speed up their open-source development around the Flash platform. We advocate the need of openness at Adobe especially for their Flash runtimes. Adobe has some great development tools like Flash Builder, Flash CS5 which target the runtimes – Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Although Adobe has a range of open-source projects they haven’t yet fully “opened” both the Flash runtimes. And that kicked off some of open-source Flash player implementations like Lightspark and Gnash. MORE >>

Sorry for shouting in the title, but I am fed up with people saying Flash is dying. Will Flash lose some market share to HTML5? Is HTML5 the best technology for cross-platform mobile development? But again, that doesn't mean the demise of Flash is anywhere near. The only reason anyone is still hollering about this is because Apple still refuses Flash on their mobile devices. Thanks to Tony Karrer's article "Mobile Learning and the Continuing Death of Flash". Don't believe all of the doomsday prophets proclaiming Flash's demise. Come on! MORE >>

Earlier this year I questioned why there was Still No Flash on the iPhone and iPad. It’s become quite clear that Apple (Steve Jobs) is going to block putting Flash on these platforms. As a Part-Time CTO , I am continually making choices about what platforms to use, what do we build for, how do we integrate with social networks, etc. Scribd today announced that they are going to be changing their Flash player to be based on HTML5. Kevin doesn’t say that they are moving away from Flash – rather that they will support Flash and HTML5 as output. MORE >>

There is no doubt everyone is looking at HTML 5 to bridge the difference between devices but is yet to become a workable platform. Even as Apple and Adobe continue to fight over the ‘control’ of the web we hope the dust settles on this in the next 6-12 months. Related posts: Mobile Learning (mLearning) Applications – An Example Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player? I am currently traveling in the US meeting clients and prospects in various domains and of varied business sizes. Most important of them is the lack of operating system standards. See you there. MORE >>

The Open Screen Project was started to help create a singular experience on multiple devices (using Flash) be it Computers, Mobiles, TV or Game consoles. Porting the same experience whether it is standalone or in-browser content, on a variety of platform remains a challenge due to fragmentation and deployment barriers. Adobe wants to latch onto the developer group that’s comfortable with Flash, yet wants their services and content to run across platforms – this by making its runtime consistent across all devices and encourage developers to design accordingly. MORE >>