Microsoft joins arms with Apple in the war against Adobe

What? No.

Exactly.

And I disagree with what you are all saying about Flash dying. HTML5 is going to be a great addition to Web Developers arsenal, but everything that can be done with HTML5 is already being done with JavaScript, yet flash still exists. Why? Because Flash uses it’s own rendering engine, and hence is capable of much more interactivity and dynamics than JavaScript or HTML5 will be capable of.

We also have to remember that while HTML5 is developing, Flash is also developing, if it stayed static then of course HTML5 would catch it up. :slight_smile:

Well, declaring Flash to be a goner would indeed be stretching a bit too far, but it’s going to take a hit for quite a large chunk of the web. Galleries, movieplayers, basic interactive applications, they’re all going to be using HTML5 and Javascript, because those two can do what Flash can not do: have proper security with proper performance.

Flash will remain the tool for actual animated interactivity of a wide variety, but it’ll be select and won’t be used on websites that generate a lot of traffic for news and media.

Also, Mango Assassin is clueless. The company I work for has close ties with Adobe and we develop software solutions together, and Adobe still -controls- their market. There isn’t a single company that comes close to offering the solutions Adobe offers. Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Indesign, Premiere/After Effects, Acrobat… They’re all here to stay, and there’s not turn of the tide heading its way in the foreseeable future.

I do expect Fireworks to be finished at some point. Compared to Photoshop it’s just a weakling child of the family. I can see it being absorbed by Photoshop at some point, just like ImageReady.

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