Adobe sees HTML5 as the future and seems to be turning its back on Flash

Adobe has announced that Animate CC will replace Flash Professional. The animation package still offers support for Flash, but Adobe is focusing more on HTML5. Adobe also comes with an HTML5 video player for desktop browsers.

While Adobe isn’t literally saying there’s no more room for Flash, the software manufacturer makes it clear in the announcement of Animate CC that HTML5 is the future: “Standards like HTML5 will shape the web platform of the future on all devices,” Adobe writes in its statement. blog.

In addition to the new Animate CC software package, which will be released in 2016, Adobe also says it will come up with an HTML5 video player for desktop browsers. The Flash Player is currently still used on many websites for video playback. Since this year, many major services have made the switch from Flash to HTML5 themselves. For example, YouTube already largely switched to HTML5 video in January. Twitch started phasing out Flash in July. It is the first time that Adobe itself now emphasizes HTML5.

Adobe has repeatedly been in the news negatively for vulnerabilities in Flash Player. Many critical vulnerabilities can be traced back to Adobe software that countless users have on their computers. For example, security company Secunia announced in August that seven of the fifteen zero-days discovered were in Flash. Exploits in Flash would also be used in Operation Pawn Storm, a major hacking campaign that targets computer systems of, among others, the White House, NATO and governments of various countries.

Although Adobe makes it clear in its wording that it sees HTML5 as the future, the use or support of Flash is not going to end immediately. According to the software maker, the technique remains widely used in “categories such as web games and premium video, where new standards have yet to mature.” In that context, Adobe announces a new partnership with Facebook to make Flash games on the social network run as safely as possible. Adobe already has such collaborations with Microsoft and Google, the company says.