2012 is the year we bid adieu to Adobe Flash
The web entering is a new lifecycle thanks to increasing adoption of HTML5 and CSS3, which means that the pervasive Adobe Flash browser plugin will be relegated to the annals of history in 2012.
HTML5 and CSS3 are relatively new standards that are being integrated into more and more websites. CSS3 and HTML5 allow websites to display streaming video and interactive rich media without the assistance of Flash and other applications that were developed specifically for this purpose. For years, Apple hasn’t supported flash on its mobile devices: the omnipresent iPhones and iPads. And as the world’s Internet-connected devices continue to go mobile, Adobe’s Flash product is increasingly irrelevant. So much so that Adobe recently announced that it will discontinue Flash development in the mobile environment.
As the world’s Internet connected devices are increasingly mobile gadgets, as illustrated in the chart (below), Adobe will eventually discontinue development for Flash altogether.
The writing is on the wall. Adobe will cease support for Flash. It will certainly happen in the not-too-distant future, and I anticipate it will happen in 2012.
This post is part of a series of predictions for 2012.
HTML5 and CSS3 are relatively new standards that are being integrated into more and more websites. CSS3 and HTML5 allow websites to display streaming video and interactive rich media without the assistance of Flash and other applications that were developed specifically for this purpose. For years, Apple hasn’t supported flash on its mobile devices: the omnipresent iPhones and iPads. And as the world’s Internet-connected devices continue to go mobile, Adobe’s Flash product is increasingly irrelevant. So much so that Adobe recently announced that it will discontinue Flash development in the mobile environment.
As the world’s Internet connected devices are increasingly mobile gadgets, as illustrated in the chart (below), Adobe will eventually discontinue development for Flash altogether.
The writing is on the wall. Adobe will cease support for Flash. It will certainly happen in the not-too-distant future, and I anticipate it will happen in 2012.
This post is part of a series of predictions for 2012.
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Ben Martin, CAE
Ben is Avectra's Product & Community manager. Recognized as one of “Five to Watch” by ASAE’s Associations Now magazine, and a 2010 winner of the National Association of REALTORS®' Technology Spotlight Award, Ben is an association executive with over a dozen years of experience in state, national and international trade and individual membership organizations. He was a MemberFuse customer at the Virginia Association of Realtors and loved the product so much that he decided to go work for Avectra. And that's a true story.
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