You can still do quite a bit with HTML and CSS, 5 or otherwise. Adobe's Edge experiment even appears at it's core to be an attempt to rebuild substantial parts of the Flash player using JS. Part of Adobe's marketing push for Flex included promoting the idea that HTML simply doesn't do what Flex does. In a few cases this may be true, but I would invite you to seriously look at the insane awesome things some people are doing with HTML/CSS/JS out there.
Also - I think adoption of HTML5 is going to continue to accelerate faster than historical browser tech has, especially on mobile. People tend to replace their phones every 18-24 months, even if they do not update their desktop browser. This means mobile's going to rapidly start leading broadly in browser capabilities, ahead of desktops. The mobile arms race between Apple and Google will also drive this to happen faster. Titanium is one platform that runs HTML on both mobile and the desktop. Realistically, it's already delivering what Flex Mobile has been trying to deliver for a number of years. And Titanium does it using HTML. As for the rest of the Flash Player questions, I think they wil continue to develop the desktop Flash Player till it's market share dwindles to nothing... -Cameron On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Laurence MacNeill <[email protected]>wrote: > Ok, so maybe HTML5 is the *future* of mobile & desktop apps, but what > about *right now*? I guess we continue working with Flex and Flash > Builder? Because HTML5 damn sure ain't ready for prime-time yet. Seems like > Adobe is committed enough to Flex that they'll be releasing Flash Builder > 4.6 in a month. And we should be good with that for at least another year, > or perhaps two, right? > > And none of this answers the Flash Player question... Are they gonna quit > developing new versions of the Flash player eventually? Damn, I wish they'd > been more thorough in their blog-post... Too many unanswered questions... > > > -- Cameron Childress -- p: 678.637.5072 im: cameroncf facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | twitter<http://twitter.com/cameronc> | google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140985>
