Adobe Flash 即将被免费 HTML5 工具 Edge 取代

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Adobe 公司 (NASDAQ:ADBE) 看来正在采取进一步行动以取代 Flash。继上次发布 Flash 转换到 HTML5 的免费工具后，它又发布了一款新的公开标准动画设计工具的预览版，Adobe Edge。该工具使用 HTML5、CSS3 和 JavaScript，允许用户开发出可以完全媲美与 Flash 的动画。

在 IT Blogwatch 上，很多博主都开始憧憬一个没有 Flash 的美好未来。

摘录如下：

Joab Jackson reports:
Traditionally, designers have used Adobe Flash...to add snazzy animated and interactive content to pages [e.g.] splash screen pages...videos or...advertisements. ... Over the past few years however...standards bodies have developed a handful of specifications that can be used to make similar rich content...such as HTML5, Canvas tags, JavaScript and CSS...eliminating the need for...Flash player.
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[Edge] uses HTML5, CSS and Javascript to insert animated web content directly onto an HTML page. ...Edge permits a developer to change the attributes of an image or an HTML element over a preset length of time. ... The preview edition is available as a free download. Adobe expects to release the final commercial version sometime in 2012...for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers.    
   
Cade Metz addz:
...Edge is part of Adobe's ongoing effort to reposition itself [as] Apple has banned Flash from its mobile devices and even Microsoft has put its weight behind...web standards. ...Adobe has begun contributing to the WebKit project as well as the jQuery...JavaScript libraries, and...this is the sort of work that would have gone into the proprietary Flash platform in years past.
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...[N]ow it is releasing an HTML animation tool to the public much earlier in the development process than it normally would. The Edge "public preview is available from the Adobe Labs site." ... The preview...will be regularly updated...and it will remain free.    

But Lawrence Latif is disappointed at Adobe's equivocation:
The impending arrival of HTML5 and CSS3 has led many to believe...Adobe's Flash was [dying], however Adobe hopes that by...allow[ing] developers to develop using HTML5 and CSS3, it will save some of the lost revenue should Flash bite the dust.
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John Cole, creative solutions architect at Adobe said the firm expected "Flash and HTML5 to co-exist in the long term." ... Cole was not willing to commit further than a 1.0 release...but added "HTML5 is going to be big".
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...[C]ustomers need to establish their workflows around particular products. ... [It] doesn't inspire a great deal of confidence...making a half hearted attempt at embracing open standards while trying to keep its Flash software relevant.    

Meanwhile, Harry McCracken is more pragmatic:
How far will Adobe take Edge? ...[T]he company sounds like it's being serious and ambitious and doesn't intend to dumb Edge down to prop up Flash. It says...that HTML5 will be capable of doing most of the things that Flash does today. (Of course, [that's] contingent on browser makers and other interested parties...supporting them in a more or less consistent fashion.)
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Some software company is going to come up with the definitive HTML5 authoring package. If Adobe doesn't pour its heart into [that], it's opening up a huge opportunity for some other outfit. Even if Flash doesn't fade away as quickly as some folks expect (and...hope) that it will.    

And Finally...
TBA

from: http://blogs.computerworld.com/18719/adobe_flash_killed_by_free_html5_tool_edge