Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by cft on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:34AM (#3214675)

The fact that Adobe acquired Macromedia was quite unfortunate for the web. Had Google acquired it, they would have probably opensourced the player code, and maybe contributed the AS3 rendering engine into WebKit as an alternative to javaScript, making Flash native for WebKit browsers. Maybe it's not too late for this step even now.

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by cowpewter on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:06AM (#3214741)

Adobe open-sourced their AS3 engine[1] to Mozilla, instead. That potential future of JS (based on ECMAScript 4) was rejected in favor of Harmony.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_(JavaScript_engine)

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by zzzzzzzzz on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:57AM (#3214833)

Tamarin ain't bad, but for me the main advantage of Flash right now is the relatively fast, browser-independent and (unfortunately) closed-source rendering engine.

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by bsimpson on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @11:12AM (#3216040)

Was Macromedia openly on the market? Did Google ever seriously consider buying them?

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by kreek on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:40PM (#3217045)

Just before Adobe bought Macromedia there was a lot of noise (and angst) that Microsoft would be the one to buy them.

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