The public battle between Adobe and Apple over bringing Flash to the iPhone, and now iPad, platforms has heated up the debate over the life expectancy of Flash as newer technologies, specifically the ...

Adobe says HTML5 is generally mature enough and sufficient for typical business applications. HTML5 beats out Flash in terms of supporting applications that provide accessibility for users with ...

Believe it or not, Flash still has an ardent fan club. The once-ubiquitous media player for browsers has taken its lumps, thanks in large part to security issues. However, diehards remain in Flash’s ...

When Macromedia released its first version of Flash in 1996 there were unequivocal yelps of joy from the web design community. It's hard to imagine today, with Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft extolling ...

Research in Motion will continue to use Adobe Flash Player, at least for the BlackBerry Playbook tablet, even after Adobe announced it will discontinue Flash for the mobile Web. RIM also said in a ...

A developer using Sencha Touch reports that translating large existing websites built with Adobe Flash to HTML5 mobile sites accessible to iOS users can now be performed by 1 or 2 people in just three ...

Document sharing site Scribd, which allows users to upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and other documents on the web using Adobe's Flash Player, has announced that it will begin converting its file ...

On Tuesday, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch fired back, claiming that Flash is plenty capable of running on the iPhone and suggesting that Apple hasn't shown interest in supporting the technology. As evidence ...

Google on Tuesday unveiled Swiffy, a free tool for developers to convert some Flash files (.SWFs) into HTML5 code. The upshot? It’s now easier than ever to get Flash content visible on platforms that ...

For many years, Adobe Flash was synonymous with animation on the web, browser games, and interactive websites. In 2011, the Flash Player plug-in was installed on 99% of desktop browsers in the Western ...

It has been fascinating to watch the evolution of Adobe Flash. What started out as a simple animation program 15 years ago has been transformed over time into a full-fledged development platform for ...